[CPEO-BIF] Former Sporlan Plant, Washington, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA plans for deeper wells at Sporlan site in Washington
New wells potentially a ‘huge pivot point’ for clean up effort

By Ethan Colbert 
Missourian
January 22, 2023


Efforts to clean up the Trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination at the former Sporlan Plant on East Seventh Street in Washington are progressing, but Environmental Protection Agency officials said Tuesday that more testing is necessary at the site.

Isabel Villaneda-Van Vloten, a remedial project manager for the EPA assigned to the Sporlan site, addressed members of the Washington City Council on Tuesday. The council’s regularly scheduled meeting on Monday was delayed due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. 

“The set of wells that we put in during the summer of 2021 went into the bedrock about 20 feet. What we found is that, unfortunately, there is contamination in the bedrock, so we still need to do a little bit more additional testing,” Villaneda-Van Vloten said. Prior testing showed the hazardous chemical was in groundwater, soil gas and indoor air within homes surrounding the site, according to a July 2019 report from the EPA. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.emissourian.com/local_news/epa-plans-for-deeper-wells-at-sporlan-site-in-washington/article_d6d388b4-9a5c-11ed-9129-cbe83a23fcc6.html

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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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