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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool submits 'final' pollution remedy in Fort Smith, Arkansas
 
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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