[CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool submits 'final' pollution remedy in Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool submits 'final' pollution remedy

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)

July 17, 2013

Environmental consultants hired by Whirlpool submitted a final remedy  
work plan to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality  
yesterday (July 16) to address pollution of trichloroethylene (TCE)  
in the area north of its former Fort Smith factory.

In the plan, Whirlpool still pushes for "institutional controls" in  
order to address the risk posed from the cancer-causing chemical that  
was used as a degreasing agent by the company during the 1980s.

"These institutional controls will be used as an enforceable  
mechanism to control potential current exposure to on-site soil and  
groundwater and potential hypothetical future exposure to off-site  
groundwater. These institutional controls will be maintained until  
concentrations of COC meet the remedy objectives for a period of at  
least four consecutive quarters," the plan read.

An institutional control previously proposed by the company was a ban  
on the drilling of groundwater wells in the area of the TCE plume  
north of Ingersoll Avenue. The Fort Smith Board of Directors voted  
down the proposed ban, though Whirlpool still pushes for what is  
assumed to be some sort of a ban in this latest report.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/28659

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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