2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 01:16:12 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Fort Smith (Arkansas) TCE-tainted properties re-assessed
 
[It's unusual to see official property assessments adjusted in response to contamination from off site. Anyone know of other examples? - LS]

Whirlpool polluted property values drop 41.2%


by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
May 23, 2013


The back yard of Barbara Wilkinson is across the road from Whirlpool`s shuttered Fort Smith manufacturing plant.
On the same day (May 23) lawsuits were filed seeking damages following Whirlpool's admission this year that it had leaked trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer-causing chemical, into properties north of its former Fort Smith manufacturing facility, Sebastian County Assessor Becky Yandell sent out notices to residents  within the contaminated neighborhood and "fringe" areas notifying them that their properties had been reassessed and in the county's eyes, were now worth less than just a year or two ago.

Following the reassessments, which Yandell said started earlier this year following Whirlpool's attempt to get the city of Fort Smith to pass an ordinance banning the drilling of groundwater wells in the neighborhood due to the contamination, total values of properties in the affected area declined by 41.28%, from a collective value of $9.831 million to $5.773 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/28007#.UaRmi-vUa5s

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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
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