[CPEO-BIF] TCE at former Oshawa, Ontario auto plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Containing contamination
How Oshawa is monitoring one of its crucial downtown assets


By Joel Wittnebel
Oshawa Express
January 22, 2016



It’s no mystery, automotive manufacturing is greasy work.

And in the days when the McLaughlin Motor Company (a growing auto builder that would later change its name to General Motors) operated in Oshawa’s downtown core, the best way to get rid of that grease was trichloroethylene (TCE). The chemical compound was used heavily in the 1950s as a degreaser. Gallons of the stuff would have been used on the site that is now home to the YMCA, Oshawa’s courthouse and soon-to-be apartment buildings.

And like a ghost left behind by the demolished auto plant, TCE lingers in the soil, forcing the city to take several steps to protect current and future developments in the downtown.



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For the entire article, see
http://oshawaexpress.ca/containing-contamination/

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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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