[CPEO-BIF] "DNR launches TCE investigation into former electroplating facility in Willard, Mo."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DNR launches TCE investigation into former electroplating facility in Willard, Mo.

By Taylor Frost
KY3 TV News (Springfield, MO)
April 10, 2019

WILLARD, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently launched a new investigation taking an in-depth look at Electro-Pac Industries in Willard, Mo. Officials will sample to see if the presence of Trichloroethylene (TCE) is within the soil, soil gas, groundwater, surface water and private wells within one mile of the site.

Officials with the DNR say Electro-Pac Industries is no longer a viable business. The address to the former facility was 6302 W. Farm Rd. 84. 

The facility used and disposed of TCE from 1972-1974.

"The rinse water from the plating operations were discharged to a lagoon located on the property," documents from the DNR state. "It was later revealed that the lagoon was leaking and recharging a spring located west of the site."

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ky3.com/content/news/DNR-launches-TCE-investigation-into-former-electroplating-facility-in-Willard-Mo-508411501.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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