[CPEO-BIF] Shaffer Equipment Co., Minden, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA continues to share PCB contamination results with Minden residents

By Jordan Nelson 
Minden Register-Herald (WV)
March 18, 2018
 

Government agents told Minden residents on Saturday that PCB levels in soil and sediment samples taken in December were not at a contamination level to be considered dangerous.

Although many Minden residents questioned the results, the Environmental Protection Agency's Melissa Linden said one of 37 surface soil samples and one of 27 sediment samples collected in December 2017 tested at an actionable level.

The EPA will begin a monthslong site assessment of Shaffer Equipment Co. site next week to determine if the area will be added to the National Priorities List (NPL) as a Superfund clean-up site. The site is contaminated by the industrial chemical PCB, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists as a probable human carcinogen.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.register-herald.com/news/epa-continues-to-share-pcb-contamination-results-with-minden-residents/article_149acab8-e50b-5709-a10c-edf4af8382d3.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>
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