[CPEO-BIF] TCE cleanup update for Whirlpool site, Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup of dangerous chemical continues near former Whirlpool plant

by Tina Alvey Dale 

Talk Business (AR)

February 16, 2020

Eight years after Whirlpool shuttered the doors, cleanup of a cancer-causing chemical continues at the former site of its 1.2 million square foot manufacturing plant on Jenny Lind.

The appliance manufacturer closed the plant in June 2012, moving most production jobs to Mexico. One year later, officials with Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool admitted to leaking trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, into properties north of the Fort Smith plant.


In September 2016 Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) approved a Revised Groundwater Monitoring Plan (RGWMP) for the Whirlpool site in Fort Smith. In accordance with the RGWMP, an action plan is required whenever “expansion of the plume is confirmed by validated data indicating constituent concentrations exceeding remedial action levels (RALs) collected during two consecutive monitoring events,” paperwork from ADEQ states.

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For the entire article, see
https://talkbusiness.net/2020/02/cleanup-of-dangerous-chemical-continues-near-former-whirlpool-plant/

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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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