[CPEO-BIF] Boeing TCE, Auburn, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ecology updates City officials on spill; groundwater is being monitored, tested safe

by ROBERT WHALE,
Auburn Reporter (WA)
October 27, 2016

It is trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chlorinated hydrocarbon, which the Boeing Company used in two areas on its Auburn property from the 1960s through the late 1980s to degrease and clean airplane parts.

TCE is a carcinogen.

Years after Boeing had discontinued its use of TCE, the company discovered that, from those two sources, the chemical had seeped into the groundwater and spread out northwest to create a flume more than a mile long, extending past Highway 18 into parts of southwest Auburn and northeast Algona.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/398769871.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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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