[CPEO-BIF] TCE contamination, Dresser Company, Pineville, Louisiaa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Baron & Budd Investigating Potential Groundwater Contamination Near Pineville, LA
October 19, 2020

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The nationally recognized attorneys from Baron & Budd, P.C. alongside Cossich Sumich Parsiola & Taylor, LLC and Luneau & Beck, LLC are investigating claims of groundwater contamination in the Pineville area. The State of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality sent letters to property owners in the affected areas notifying them of environmental contamination near their residence or property.

The contamination has been traced back to the Dresser Company facility in Pineville. The facility operated from the 1960s until 2016 when it was permanently closed. Dresser manufactured couplings and valves using chlorinated solvents, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PERC), in the process.

In 2011, Dresser reported a spill at the Pineville facility and drilled monitoring wells to test and monitor the groundwater at the site. The tests found dangerously high levels of TCE in the groundwater. TCE is very mobile in soil and extremely persistent in groundwater. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency have classified TCE as a known carcinogen and PERC as a likely carcinogen.

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For the entire release, see
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201019005084/en/Baron-Budd-Investigating-Potential-Groundwater-Contamination-Near-Pineville-LA

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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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