[CPEO-BIF] Exide battery plant property, Frisco, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination discovered beyond Exide plant boundaries


By Anthony Tosie,
Frisco Enterprise Star (TX)
July 10, 2013

Studies commissioned by the city of Frisco revealed battery chips and  
potentially toxic materials likely originating from Exide  
Technologies property has been found along Stewart Creek.

Frisco Unleaded, an advocacy group monitoring the battery recycling  
plants demolition, obtained documents from the city of Frisco through  
a Freedom of Information Act request that detailed multiple studies  
regarding the contamination. The documents indicate the city has been  
aware of the contamination for about two years.

Of numerous samples taken from the creeks sediment in November 2011  
by a city contractor, 71 percent showed levels of lead, cadmium or  
arsenic that exceed the Texas Commission on Environmental Qualitys  
ecological benchmarks. The creek, which runs from the Exide property  
to Lewisville Lake, is partially located where a proposed man-made  
lake for the citys planned $29 million Grand Park will reside  
following approval from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers


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For the entire article, see
http://www.scntx.com/articles/2013/07/10/frisco_enterprise/news/246.txt

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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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