[CPEO-BIF] "Fort Smith (AR) Youth Club Site To Be Tested For Contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Smith Youth Club Site To Be Tested For Contamination

By Chad Hunter
Southwest Times Record  (AR)
August 5, 2014

Based on new contamination findings, Whirlpool Corp. is seeking  
access agreements with the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club and city for  
further testing.

A portion of Whirlpool’s now-closed plant on Jenny Lind Road has been  
contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, since at least 1989 when  
it was discovered at the site, according to environmental consulting  
firm Environ. The chemical, now known to be toxic, was later  
discovered underneath a neighborhood north of the plant.

Whirlpool representative Jeff Noel said the new testing request was  
prompted by samples taken from monitoring wells installed earlier  
this year at the property’s northeast corner.

...

For the entire article, see
http://swtimes.com/news/fort-smith-youth-club-site-be-tested- 
contamination


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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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