Eagle Picher community action group gets help to boost effectiveness
by Cathy Cook
El Defensor Chieftain (NM)
January 5, 2023
The Socorro Superfund Community Advisory Group is looking for community input.
The Community Advisory Group (CAG) are volunteers who coordinate with the Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department to keep the flow of information going between government agencies and the community on the Eagle Picher Superfund site.
In the 1980s, the superfund site was the location of a battery factory, which dumped industrial waste in unlined lagoons at the site, contaminating groundwater and creating an underground plume of 1,4-Dioxane, TCE and PCE just south of the Eagle Picher site to the northern part of the New Mexico Tech golf course. Other contaminant concerns include heavy metal contamination for soil at the Eagle Picher site, asbestos and lead-based paints in construction debris, and TCE, PCE and 1,1-DCE for soil gases and vapor intrusion.
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For the entire article, see
https://dchieftain.com/eagle-picher-community-action-group-gets-help-to-boost-effectiveness/
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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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