[CPEO-BIF] "ADEQ issues final Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan, " Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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