[CPEO-MEF] Diversified Products, Hamilton Twp., Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Justice unlikely on buried waste
Hard-to-prove case costly to taxpayers

BY JESSICA BROWN
Cincinnati Enquirer (OH)
January 8, 2006

HAMILTON TWP. - No one will go to jail for burying more than 1,300 drums 
of toxic waste along the Little Miami River for several reasons: a 
hard-to prove criminal case, an uncooperative and bankrupt company, and 
lingering questions about who was responsible.

So taxpayers are funding the $1 million cleanup.

That fact has outraged some, according to reader responses to an 
Enquirer story about the cleanup. Some say state and federal officials 
didn't act quickly enough or put enough pressure on the now-defunct 
Diversified Products, a metal manufacturing company. The Ohio EPA says 
the company buried the waste and solvent more than 20 years ago.

...

The U.S. Army used to own the Diversified Products site and other 
surrounding property, where it operated an ammunition plant. It later 
subdivided and sold all but 16 acres, on which it built its Army Reserve 
Center.

The Army began its own environmental cleanup in the 1990s after finding 
high levels of trichloroethylene on its property. It discovered drums 
sticking out of the hillside and promised to clean them up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/NEWS01/701080365

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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