[CPEO-BIF] "Free PCE mitigation systems to be available to some Martinsville [Indiana] homes."

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Free PCE mitigation systems to be available to some Martinsville homes. Here's what you need to know.

By Lance Gideon
Martinsville Reporter Times (IN)
June 30, 2022

MARTINSVILLE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working in Martinsville for years to investigate and cleanup the Pike and Mulberry Streets PCE Plume Superfund Site.

The toxic plume is believed to have been caused by several potential sources, including the former Master Wear dry cleaning business, in the late 1980s to early 1990s.

The primary contaminate in the plume is tetrachloroethylene, commonly referred to as PCE. which polluted the city's water supply.

Back in 2005, the city installed a carbon filtration system which removes the PCE from the water.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.reporter-times.com/story/news/2022/06/29/pike-and-mulberry/7721886001/

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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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