[CPEO-BIF] Armstrong World Industries and Allied Industrial Park, Macon, Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

First Armstrong Superfund cleanup plans finalized
"This is a ridiculously slow project," says Macon official

By S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
October 4, 2014

Armstrong World Industries will take the first step next year in  
containing old cancer-causing pollutants that have fouled Rocky Creek  
for years.

...

FORMER NAVAL ORDNANCE PLANT AT ALLIED

According to its website, the EPA does not yet know whether there are  
human exposures to contaminants at the neighboring Superfund site at  
Allied Industrial Park, or whether the pollution there is still  
moving. There is a significant plume of TCE in the groundwater.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division and the EPA have long  
unofficially identified the Navy as responsible for at least part of  
the contamination. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for  
cleaning up pollution from formerly used defense sites, but the corps  
has refused to clean up the south Macon site because it says the Navy  
wasn’t the only perpetrator.

...

Several years ago, the EPA had said it would be using a new  
technology to check for TCE fumes in one or more of the buildings.  
TCE can migrate into indoor air from the soil beneath through cracks  
in a building’s foundation.

...

But the vapor study hasn't happened.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2014/10/04/3345158_first-armstrong-superfund- 
cleanup.html?rh=1

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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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