[CPEO-BIF] Carrier Corporation TCE, Collierville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shelby Co. Regulators Delay Proposal to Pump Treated Water into Drinking Water 

By KATIE RIORDAN
WKNO-FM (Memphis, TN)
December 11, 2019

Shelby County water regulators on Tuesday questioned a proposal to inject treated water from a Collierville Superfund site back into Memphis’ source of drinking water. The site’s updated cleanup plan also worries some environmentalists.  

For about 30 years, the Carrier Corporation has been extracting polluted groundwater from under its air conditioning manufacturing site in Collierville. The water contains trichloroethylene, or TCE, a carcinogen linked to kidney cancer. Under current procedures, the company filters the TCE from the groundwater, and then pipes it to a sewage treatment plant for disposal. 

But Carrier recently applied for a change in disposal--to pump the treated water into the Memphis Sand Aquifer, adding it to the county's drinking water. There's a current county-wide ban on the injection well practice, but the company argues that the sewage plant cannot handle the polluted site’s volume of wastewater at certain times, especially after heavy rains. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wknofm.org/post/shelby-co-regulators-delay-proposal-pump-treated-water-drinking-water

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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