[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool to speed up TCE pollution mitigation plan, " Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool to speed up TCE pollution mitigation plan

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
February 25, 2014


Whirlpool Corporation has submitted yet another revised Revised Final  
Work Plan to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)  
as the company prepares to start remediation efforts well ahead of  
previous estimates.

In the previous update to the remediation plan in January, the  
company stated that three phases of chemical oxidation would be  
necessary for the company to begin to break down trichloroethylene  
(TCE) in the groundwater below its former Fort Smith manufacturing  
facility and a neighborhood to the north of the shuttered factory.  
The first phase was scheduled to begin in Spring 2016, with a second  
phase to begin a year later.

Earlier plans had indicated a completion date for remediation of 2018.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/31894

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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
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