[CPEO-BIF] "Pumping away a polluted legacy from IBM in Endicott, " New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pumping away a polluted legacy from IBM in Endicott
Chemical infiltration lawsuit could be heard by next year

by Tom Wilber
BInghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
May 31, 2014

ENDICOTT - For 35 years, pumps have been operating around the clock attempting to undo the damage from spilled chemicals that tainted air, soil and water in 300-acres around IBM’s birthplace and more than 475 residential properties.

The pumps pull pollution from the ground through structures called recovery wells. Over time, these wells have grown in number from four to more than 22, and to date they have recovered more than 815,000 pounds of trichloroethylene and other toxic chemicals, with an unknown amount remaining beneath the village.

But only now, nearly a dozen years after affected residents filed multi-million dollar liability lawsuits against IBM, is the company’s connection with the pollution being detailed. The new information comes from evidence related to a claim that the chemical disaster was a result of years of inattention by IBM to a series of breaches in the plant’s piping system.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20140531/NEWS01/305310047/Pumping-away-a-polluted-legacy-from-IBM-in-Endicott

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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