[CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool Ft. Smith (Arkansas) TCE plume spreading

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ADEQ memo indicates Whirlpool pollution plume is spreading

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)

September 29, 2014

The plume of potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE) found  
under the former Whirlpool manufacturing facility and an adjoining  
neighborhood in South Fort Smith could be spreading in the area near  
the near a Boys and Girls Club location.

News of the potentially growing plume was disclosed in a Sept. 22  
letter from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to  
Robert Karwowski, director of environmental, health and safety at  
Whirlpool's corporate headquarters in Benton Harbor, Mich.

ADEQ Engineer Mostafa Mehran wrote to Karwowski regarding a report by  
Whirlpool about additional TCE pollution that was found near a Boys  
and Girls Club located in South Fort Smith not far from the shuttered  
factory facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/34913

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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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