[CPEO-BIF] TCE from Villa Park landfill, West Bend, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rebroadcast of public information meeting on Villa Park landfill

by Judy Steffes 
Washington County Insider (WI)
October 18, 2019 

West Bend, WI – Shepherd of the Hills Church was packed this week as neighbors attended a public information meeting on the Villa Park landfill. AECOM from Milwaukee is the company that has been monitoring the landfill the past 20+ years.

Hydrogeologist Leo Linnemanstons with AECOM, spoke extensively at the meeting on Wednesday night. He said they are monitoring a plume and it’s position from the landfill.

The plume is Trichloroethylene (TCE) which has been found in the air and in the groundwater in Villa Park. TCE was used by factories to clean metal and it was in paint.  TCE, according to Linnemanstons migrates via ground water and can “gas off.”  It can enter a house, very similar to radon.

Linnemanstons said it all depends on the flow of the plume, depth of groundwater, how close it gets to the surface, and soil conditions.

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For the entire article and a link to the video, see
http://www.washingtoncountyinsider.com/video-rebroadcast-of-public-information-meeting-regarding-villa-park-landfill/

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





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