[CPEO-BIF] Pasco, Washington toxic landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Underground fire, groundwater contamination. More trouble at toxic landfill by Pasco

BY ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herland
October 24, 2017

Another fire may be smoldering underground at a landfill just east of Pasco city limits.

New evidence has been found of burning waste and groundwater contamination where 35,000 drums of solvent, plus paint sludges and cleaner, are buried, according to the Washington Department of Ecology.

A fire in a different area of the Pasco Sanitary Landfill burned for two years starting in late 2013 before efforts to put it out worked.


The new fire does not pose an immediate threat to the Tri-Cities, according to the Department of Ecology. Regional emergency response agencies are aware of the situation.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article180736231.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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