[CPEO-BIF] Cleaning up TCE at Boeing's Auburn, Washington plant

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Washington State Department of Ecology
April 21, 2021

Cleaning up: Boeing Auburn feasibility study

Natural action - with some assistance - can reduce a plume of contaminated groundwater outside of the Boeing Auburn plant.

We’re overseeing The Boeing Company’s environmental cleanup at its parts fabrication facility in Auburn. Part of the contamination extends beyond Boeing’s property line as a plume of contaminated groundwater under northeastern Algona and northwestern Auburn. The plume reaches about a mile, mainly north and a little bit west of the plant.

TCE plume: the remedial investigation mapped and measured the where groundwater is contaminated.

The plume contains a solvent called TCE, or tri-chloro-ethylene, that is believed to have leaked through cracks in concrete floor basins from the 1960s to the 1990s. Since that time, Boeing has switched to less toxic solvents and complies with hazardous waste requirements adopted to prevent spills and leaks into the environment.  

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For the entire release, see
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/538956088/cleaning-up-boeing-auburn-feasibility-study

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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
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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