[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool begins new round of TCE remediation in Fort Smith, " Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool begins new round of TCE remediation in Fort Smith

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
May 21, 2014

Whirlpool Corp. submitted information Tuesday (May 20) to the  
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality outlining further  
chemical treatments as part of its remediation plan for the  
trichloroethylene (TCE) plume in south Fort Smith.

As reported earlier in May, ENVIRON - the environmental consulting  
group hired by Whirlpool to address the contamination issues - had  
identified "an area of highly impacted soils to as deep as 25' - 30'  
have been located at the northwest corner of the Whirlpool  
building ... " and also believed "a large quantity of contaminant  
mass (is) moving to the South."

The new findings indicate that Whirlpool knew TCE contamination was  
worse than previously stated and a different set of action would be  
necessary to treat the contamination site - including possible  
removal of contaminated soils.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/33218

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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