[CPEO-BIF] Miller Plating & Metal Finishing property, Evansville, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

What's next for a hazardous waste site located in an Evansville neighborhood?

By Mark Wilson
Evansville Courier & Press
July 20, 2022

EVANSVILLE — The cleanup of a hazardous waste site in an Evansville neighborhood is largely done, but what comes next for the old Miller Plating & Metal Finishing property is still unclear. 

Located near the corner of North Sixth Avenue and Allens Lane, it is contaminated with TCE (trichloroethylene) and heavy metals in its soil and groundwater, according to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management said it will monitor groundwater at the site for at least the next 20 months.

TCE has been linked to cancer, kidney and liver damage and other health effects.

Covered with open pits and debris, the site was not fenced off until spring 2017. It remains fenced in and overgrown with weeds.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/miller-plating-toxic-waste-hazardous-site-evansville-indiana-neighborhood-cleanup/7724755001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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