[CPEO-BIF] "State order targets Boeing Everett [Washington] plant’s polluted history"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State order targets Boeing Everett plant’s polluted history
Records show a dispute over cleanup requirements for chemically tainted water. The company denies there’s a disagreement.

By Rachel Riley
Everett Herald (WA)
April 12, 2021
 
 
EVERETT — Notices along Powder Mill Creek offer a warning:

“CREEK CLEAN UP IN PROGRESS. NO WADING. NO DRINKING.”

For years, the bulletins have been some of the few public signs of the industrial toxins migrating from what’s just upstream: the Boeing Co.’s Everett plant.

The manufacturing powerhouse, in operation since the late 1960s, is the source of a plume of contaminated groundwater that extends roughly 2,800 feet from the head of a steep canyon, northward into the creek, until about a mile from where the small waterway empties into Puget Sound.

The tainted water, which comes from beneath an asphalt-lined stormwater basin on the northern reaches of Boeing’s property, is laden with Trichloroethylene.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-order-targets-boeing-everett-plants-polluted-history/

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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
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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