[CPEO-BIF] "Evanite cleanup entering new phase, " Corvallis, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Evanite cleanup entering new phase

by BENNETT HALL
Corvallis Gazette-Times (OR)
May 28, 2015

After close to a quarter-century of work, the cleanup of a highly  
contaminated South Corvallis industrial site might be entering its  
final phase.

State environmental regulators are gathering public comment on a  
proposal to incorporate several new methods into the ongoing removal  
of trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, from soil and groundwater  
at the former Evanite Fiber plant at 1115 S.E. Crystal Lake Drive.

The property was purchased in 1996 by Massachusetts-based  
Hollingsworth & Vose, which uses the plant to produce high-end glass  
fiber for specialty filtration applications.

But for about 20 years before that, from 1975 to 1996, Evanite used  
part of the site to manufacture plastic battery separator material  
using a process involving large amounts of TCE, a widely used and  
highly toxic industrial solvent.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/evanite-cleanup-entering-new- 
phase/article_64d0c23f-8b18-53c1-a4c9-46a88a987d05.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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