[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool pollution plume may be larger, " Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ADEQ: Whirlpool pollution plume may be larger

Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
August 2, 2013

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has called into  
question a claim made by Whirlpool in their 2012/2013 Groundwater  
Monitoring Report, dated June 24 of this year.

In the report, Whirlpool had made claims that the plume of cancer- 
causing trichloroethylene (TCE) that had leaked from its now- 
shuttered facility in south Fort Smith was either stable or shrinking.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/28897

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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