[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool says Fort Smith [Arkansas] pollution plume ‘continues to decrease’"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool says Fort Smith pollution plume ‘continues to decrease’


by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
October 14, 2014


A Whirlpool Corporation executive and one of its hired environmental consultants told the Fort Smith Board of Directors Tuesday (Oct. 14) that a third round of chemical oxidation treatments would commence at the end of October. The third round comes after the first two rounds that occurred in March, May and June of this year.

Company officials also updated the Board on settlement talks with homeowners.

The chemical oxidation treatments planned for later this month will occur in a section of the TCE plume known as "Area 1," near the northwest corner of the Whirlpool plant where degreasing using the potentially cancer causing chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) was used until the 1980s, according to consultant Michael Ellis, a principal with ENVIRON. The company has been hired by Whirlpool to handle its remediation of land impacted by TCE in the groundwater and soil on and near the company's shuttered south Fort Smith plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/35098#.VEIh6IfZfPE

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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