[CPEO-BIF] Fort Smith, Arkansas wants Whirlpool TCE cleaned up

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Smith wants Whirlpool pollution monitored

by Ryan Saylor

City Wire (AR)
April 2, 2013

The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved a resolution Tuesday  
evening (April 2) urging Whirlpool and the Arkansas Department of  
Environmental Quality to quickly clean up a plume of  
trichloroethylene (TCE) in and around Whirlpool's former  
manufacturing facility.

The resolution mentioned not only TCE, but "all pollutants," be  
cleaned up.

...

Gosack also said ADEQ was taking steps to include the concerns of  
Fort Smith in testing and remediation of the area, including asking  
Whirlpool to conduct air tests to confirm whether TCE was coming to  
the surface through air vapors. ADEQ computer models had previously  
said TCE would not surface through vapors, which is why it had not  
required such testing previously, Gosack said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/27140

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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