[CPEO-BIF] TCE and PCE in Franklin, Indiana "may have spread"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic cancer-causing contamination in Franklin may have spread, report says

By Sarah Bowman
Indianapolis Star (IN)
June 22, 2021

A new study of the contamination in the groundwater under Franklin calls into question whether the toxic chemicals have spread farther beneath homes and the city than originally thought. 

Toxic sludge was first released into the sewers underneath the Johnson County city more than 50 years ago. But it wasn’t until just the last five years that federal and state agencies conducted extensive testing at and around the site to determine how far the contamination had moved. Then they began to clean it up, digging up the sewers and surrounding soils. 

But the testing wasn’t thorough enough, according to an environmental consulting firm hired by a nonprofit started by a group of concerned parents. The report, completed by Mundell & Associates on the group's behalf, suggests additional testing needs to be done to find the full extent of the contamination before it can be cleaned up in its entirety

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For the entire article, see
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2021/06/22/franklin-indiana-toxic-chemicals-contamination-report-soil-johnson-county-us-epa/7738639002/

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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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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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