[CPEO-BIF] TCE and sewer pipes, Bethany, Oklahoma

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Companies Fault City of Bethany for Groundwater Pollution 

By ASSOCIATED PRESS 
Tulsa Public Radio (OK)
November 29, 2016 

BETHANY, Okla. (AP) — Two companies that operated a now closed aerospace plant argue that groundwater pollutants threatening to contaminate the city of Bethany's municipal water supply are a result of the city's 67-year-old clay sewer pipes, not the shuttered plant.

A plume of the solvent tetrachloroethylene, or TCE, extends from the closed plant and is threatening Bethany's nearby water wells.

TCE was used to degrease metal aircraft parts at the former aerospace plant, which was operated by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and Rockwell Automation Inc. plant at Wiley Post. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, TCE is known to cause liver problems and increase cancer risk in humans.

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For the entire article, see
http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/companies-fault-city-bethany-groundwater-pollution#stream/0

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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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