2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:16:27 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "ADEQ issues final Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan, " Fort Smith, Arkansas
 
ADEQ issues final Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
December 27, 2013


The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality released its final Remedial Action Decision Document (RADD) for Corrective Action on Friday (Dec. 27) that requires Whirlpool to spend at least $6 million to clean up pollution at its shuttered Fort Smith plant.

ADEQâs plan also informs Whirlpool and residents affected by the company's spill of potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE) of the final cleanup plan that has been the subject of public discussion for much of 2013.

The final RADD document does not vary in remediation approach from the draft RADD document first made public in October, implementing a three-pronged approach to remediation - asphalting the Whirlpool site, using chemical injection wells to dilute the TCE and implementing institutional controls. Several members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors opposed the remediation plan when it was proposed in October.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/31053

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Lenny Siegel
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