[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool Releases Report On Fort Smith [AR] TCE Cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool Releases Report On Fort Smith TCE Cleanup

By Chad Hunter 
Southwest Times Record (AR)
February 22, 2016 

Whirlpool’s annual report to the state indicates that contamination cleanup efforts in and around the company’s shuttered Fort Smith plant reduced toxic concentration levels between 53 percent to 83 percent in targeted areas.

A portion of Whirlpool Corp.’s sprawling property on Jenny Lind Road has been contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, since the late 1980s when it was discovered in groundwater after the removal of an underground fuel storage tank, according to Whirlpool’s environmental consulting firm, Ramboll Environ. The toxic chemical was discovered underneath a nearby neighborhood in 2001.

In Whirlpool’s 2015 report to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, company spokesman Jeff Noel notes that remediation activities included chemical injections and continued monitoring of soil, groundwater and vapors. The report cites “two years of success and progress in Fort Smith.”

…

For the entire article, see
http://swtimes.com/news/whirlpool-releases-report-fort-smith-tce-cleanup

--

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

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org