[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool issues first annual report on Fort Smith [Arkansas] pollution cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool issues first annual report on Fort Smith pollution cleanup

Fort Smith City Wire (AR) Staff
January 16, 2014

Whirlpool on Thursday (Jan. 16) released its annual report detailing  
the early stages of the cleanup trichloroethylene (TCE) at its former  
manufacturing facility on the south side of Fort Smith. TCE, a known  
carcinogen, had been used as a degreasing agent at the facility until  
the 1980s.

The annual report is the first released by the company as required by  
the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), which made  
it part of its final Remedial Action Decision Document (RADD) for  
Corrective Action. The RADD dictates how Whirlpool will cleanup  
pollution not just at its former manufacturing facility, but also in  
areas including a neighborhood that lie above a plume of TCE that  
leaked north of the facility.

The annual report, attributed to Jeff Noel, Whirlpool's corporate  
vice president of communications and public affairs, outlined the  
companies remediation efforts to what had occurred in 2013 and what  
is planned for 2014.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/31300

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