[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool asked Fort Smith (Arkansas) for TCE plan in June 2012"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool asked Fort Smith for TCE plan in June 2012


City Wire (AR)
May 16, 2013 

Documents reviewed by The City Wire show Fort Smith city officials knew about Whirlpool's plan to request a groundwater well ban as early as June of last year and that Whirlpool may not have been forthcoming with the city or the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality about its request.

According to an e-mail dated June 13, 2012, from Fort Smith's Director of Development Services Wally Bailey to City Administrator Ray Gosack and other recipients, he and Deputy City Administrator Jeff Dingman met on June 5, 2012, with Whirlpool's Fayetteville-based attorney, Robert Jones III and Amber Prince. At the time, Jones informed Bailey and Dingman of the trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination caused by Whirlpool during the 1980s. TCE can be cancer-causing if ingested, Whirlpool said.

"Their apparent purpose is for the city to pass this ordinance and help them with the sale of the property and future responsibility of the problem," Bailey wrote to Gosack.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/27894#.UZWgYILUa5s

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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