[CPEO-BIF] "Superfund to treat groundwater beneath old Chromatex plant in Valmont, " Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund to treat groundwater beneath old Chromatex plant in Valmont

By Kent Jackson 
Hazleton Standard Speaker (PA)
February 27, 2024 

Federal Superfund money will pay to vaporize and treat a cancer-causing liquid that lingered beneath a former upholstery plant in Valmont Industrial Park for decades.

The Valmont TCE site in West Hazleton and Hazle Twp. is among 25 sites that will share $1 billion in new funds for cleanups, the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Money comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Just off Jaycee Drive in a warehouse now owned by Karchner Logistics, an upholstery company called Chromatex used to treat fabric with strain repellent.

The stain repellent contained trichloroethene or TCE, which causes cancer.

TCE from the plant entered the groundwater and wells of homes on nearby roads, such as Bent Pine Lane and Deer Run Road.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.standardspeaker.com/news/superfund-to-treat-groundwater-beneath-old-chromatex-plant-in-valmont/article_efede0d1-fdc4-5085-b41d-bc2b7d6cc8da.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
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)

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