[CPEO-BIF] Indianapolis Mayor: "Polluters dawdling on brownfield cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Among other things: Another case of the sewer-line pathway. - LS]

[Ballard: Polluters dawdling on brownfield cleanup

Kathleen McLaughlin
Indianapolis Business Journal (IN)
March 7, 2015

The owners of more than 20 polluted industrial sites in Indianapolis are hiding behind the legal protections of a state-run voluntary program to delay cleanup, Mayor Greg Ballard alleges in a letter to state regulators.

In at least one case, Indiana Department of Environmental Management officials share Ballard’s concern. They point out that an east-side property owned by the chemical company Chemtura Corp. has been enrolled in IDEM’s Voluntary Remediation Program 14 years, but the exact source of pollution remains unidentified, and there’s no agreed-upon plan for cleaning up the industrial solvents.

Meanwhile, solvents have migrated into the sewer line leading off Chemtura’s property and could release vapors in homes near Brookside Park.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ibj.com/articles/52150-ballard-polluters-dawdling-on-brownfield-cleanup

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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