From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 5 Jan 2023 07:25:25 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Eagle Picher community action group gets help to boost effectiveness, " Socorro, New Mexico |
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. … For the entire article, see https://dchieftain.com/eagle-picher-community-action-group-gets-help-to-boost-effectiveness/ — 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) _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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