[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool submits addition to ‘Final Remedy Work Plan’ for TCE pollution," Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool submits addition to ‘Final Remedy Work Plan’ for TCE  
pollution

by Ryan Saylor

Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
September 8, 2014

Whirlpool submitted a proposed supplement to its Final Remedy Work  
Plan on Monday (Sept. 8) to the Arkansas Department of Environmental  
Quality that would add additional injections of chemical oxidant  
combined with soil removal to remedy an area near the northwest  
corner of the Whirlpool site where additional trichloroethylene (TCE)  
has been found.

The potentially cancer-causing TCE was used as part of a degreasing  
agent by Whirlpool until the 1980s at its now-closed Fort Smith  
plant. According to Kristine Vernier, senior manager of global public  
relations at Whirlpool, the supplement builds "on the remediation  
activities that are already underway."

There are four areas of remediation activities proposed for a portion  
of the TCE plume known as "Area 1" that is found on the Whirlpool  
site's northwest corner. The first of the proposed activities  
involves removal of nearly 300 cubic yards of TCE-impacted soil using  
"large diameter borings.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/34628

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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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