[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, CLOSURE - Myrtle Beach (SC) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

AVX steers eyes to air base
Documents cite Air Force site proximity

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
March 1, 2008

Electronics manufacturer AVX Corp., the source of toxic groundwater 
contamination in a Myrtle Beach neighborhood, has started making 
references in court documents to that neighborhood's close proximity to 
the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.

Those references come just weeks after AVX Chief Executive John 
Gilbertson said his company might target the Air Force as a potential 
source of at least some of the neighborhood's pollution.

If AVX can show other property owners contributed to the pollution, 
those property owners would have to share in the cleanup costs, under 
terms of the federal Superfund law.

AVX, which is being sued by owners of the nearby contaminated property, 
had not mentioned the Air Force in court filings prior to Gilbertson's 
statements during a Jan. 24 conference call with stock analysts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/367887.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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