[CPEO-BIF] EPA's plan to clean TCE at Delfasco Forge site, Grand Prairie, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA explains how it will tackle cancer-causing contaminated groundwater under dozens of Grand Prairie homes
A groundwater plume contaminated with trichloroethylene has been underneath about 80 homes for years and can cause cancer, birth defects and damage vital organs

By Matt Howerton
WFAA TV-8 News (Dallas, TX)
August 10, 2023

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — Members from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the city of Grand Prairie addressed concerns from residents on Thursday, laying out a plan to eliminate a toxic groundwater plume that's lurked beneath them for years. 

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The culprit of the plume is the Delfasco Forge facility. This North Texas defense contractor operated at the corner of Main Street and Northeast 28th Street as a munitions manufacturing and forge operation since the 1950s. The company stopped its operations in 1998, per the city of Grand Prairie. 

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Approved last month, Schroeder said that the EPA will start using 'PlumeStop' on the affected groundwater, liquid-activated carbon that would filter and purify it.
If that treatment isn't successful, Schroeder said the EPA would do soil vacuum extraction. It seems ridiculous, but it's exactly as it sounds. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/epa-explains-how-tackle-cancer-causing-contaminated-groundwater-under-dozens-grand-prairie-home/287-1bfeede8-2e20-4624-a30d-e5b6dca35337

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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





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