[CPEO-BIF] Meeting about Whirlpool pollution, Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ADEQ presents plan to clean Whirlpool pollution

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
November 12, 2013


Officials with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality faced  
angry Fort Smith residents Monday night (Nov. 12) as they presented  
official recommendations to Whirlpool on how to clean up a toxic  
plume of chemicals, namely trichloroethylene (TCE), that Whirlpool  
admits leaking into the groundwater during the 1980s.

The Remedial Action Decision Document (RADD) discussed tonight at the  
Fort Smith Senior Center was first made public Oct. 7. According to  
ADEQ Deputy Director Ryan Benefield, the RADD forces cleanup and  
protects the public.

...

Soil gas monitoring will also take place on the Whirlpool site to  
confirm that vapor intrusion continues to be an incomplete pathway,  
Benefield said

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/30483

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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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