[CPEO-BIF] Arkansas says Whirlpool TCE plume may be spreading

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ADEQ disputes Whirlpool finding that TCE plume is not growing

 

 

by Ryan Saylor

Fort Smith City Wire

November 3, 2014

 

In an Oct. 22 response to questions by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality about the stability of a toxic plume of potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE), Whirlpool Corporation has again made statements it said justifies previous assertions that the TCE plume is not growing, despite ADEQ statements that have provided the opposite conclusion.

 

The ADEQ memo dated Sept. 22 stated that the ADEQ believed the plume was potentially growing. ADEQ Engineer Mostafa Mehran wrote to Robert Karwowski, director of environmental, health and safety at Whirlpool, 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/35357

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight

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