[CPEO-BIF] "Tennessee county board rebuffs proposal to" inject filtered TCE water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tennessee county board rebuffs proposal to put Superfund waste in drinking water source

Press Release
Southern Environmental Law Center 
December 20, 2019

The Shelby County Groundwater Quality Control Board recently tabled a request by the Carrier Corporation to inject wastewater into the Memphis Sand aquifer at its Superfund site in Collierville, asking the company to come back in March with more information, including a closer examination of alternatives to putting the aquifer at risk.

While the delay is good news, the board could have simply denied the permit immediately based on the county code.

“The Shelby County Well Construction Code is clear,” said Amanda Garcia, managing attorney for SELC’s Tennessee office. “No injection wells are permitted in Memphis or Shelby County. And Carrier’s request is an excellent example of why this blanket prohibition is good policy.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/tennessee-county-board-rebuffs-proposal-to-put-superfund-waste-in-drinking-water-source

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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
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