[CPEO-BIF] Eagle Industries site, Midwest City, Oklahoma

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA Moves to Add Midwest City Site to National List of Most Urgent Hazardous Cleanups 

By JOE WERTZ
KOSU Public Radio (OK)
July 31, 2017

The U.S. Environmental Protection agency is moving to add an Oklahoma facility that inspected and repaired aircraft oxygen and fire extinguisher systems to the nation’s list of most polluted hazardous waste sites.

Eagle Industries operated from 1990 to 2010 in Midwest City. The site is now inactive, officials say. A for-lease sign is planted in front of the office building, which appears to be vacant.

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There is a gap in city water service near the Eagle Industries site, which is located on Midwest City’s border with Oklahoma City. Wells are the only source of water for 18 homes near the contaminated site, EPA officials say.



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For the entire article, see
http://kosu.org/post/epa-moves-add-midwest-city-site-national-list-most-urgent-hazardous-cleanups

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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