[CPEO-BIF] "Work begins on Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan, " Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work begins on Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan


by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wite (AR)
December 18, 2013


A little more than a month after the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality presented its plan to address contamination caused by Whirlpool's admitted leak of trichloroethylene (TCE) into groundwater in the 1980s, action is being taken at the contamination site.

According to ADEQ Public Outreach and Assistance Division Chief Katherine Benenati, crews from ENVIRON will be in the area this week.

"Whirlpool’s consultants are in the field doing pre-design testing of the soils in preparation for implementing the RADD after the first of the year," she said in an e-mail.

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The primary method of clean up will consist of the use of chemicals to neutralize the TCE.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/30996#.UrKXxo3ES5s

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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