[CPEO-BIF] TCE found near former Tell City, Indiana GE plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical found near old Tell City plant

By MIKE PICKETT 
Tri-State Homepage 
August 17, 2018 

People living near a closed Tell City plant are raising concerns over possible exposure to a chemical found underground.

The chemical was detected near the old General Electric plant on 13th street that's been closed for more than a decade.

It was where vacuum tubes and small motors for appliances were made until its closure in 2005.

"It was important. I think it created a firm middle class here in town," says Lynne Rice, who lives across the street from the old plant. But a chemical known as trichloroehtylene, found in underground samples earlier this year, is making people living near the plant concerned about health and their neighborhood's future.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/chemical-found-near-old-tell-city-plant/1378820203

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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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