[CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool's revised cleanup plan, Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool submits revised TCE mitigation plan

by Ryan Saylor
City Wire (AR)
April 8, 2013

Whirlpool has submitted a revised remediation plan for the company's former Fort Smith manufacturing site and surrounding areas contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer causing chemical that Whirlpool has admitted leaked from its facility on the city's south side.

In a document provided to The City Wire by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Whirlpool's environmental consultant, ENVIRON,  says it will participate in an "active site remedy."

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Included in the remediation plan, Whirlpool's consulting firm also said it would begin soil gas monitoring, which many members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors and residents of the contaminated neighborhood north of the facility have demanded.

"Whirlpool will implement a program of soil gas monitoring for a three-year period on an annual basis to monitor the soil gas concentrations to confirm that groundwater derived vapors are not migrating and that vapor intrusion continues to be an incomplete pathway," the document said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/27217#.UWQLBhnUa5s

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Lenny Siegel
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