[CPEO-MEF] PCBs: Fort Worth (TX) water treatment and the Air Force

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fort Worth will get $4.8 million from Air Force for cleanup of former 
treatment plant


By MIKE LEE
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
October 20, 2009

FORT WORTH - A long-delayed cleanup of pollution at the abandoned 
Riverside Wastewater Treatment Plant will continue, now that the City 
Council has finalized a $4.8 million settlement with the Air Force.

For seven years, the city has been working to determine the source of 
PCB pollution that is still in some of the plant’s equipment and 
surrounding land. At least some of the pollution came from the aircraft 
plant that is owned by the Air Force and has been operated by Convair, 
General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin.

It will take $16 million to $20 million and several years to fully clean 
up the site, Water Director Frank Crumb said. Any costs not covered by 
the settlement will likely be borne by Fort Worth water customers. The 
treatment plant has been closed since 1979.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1700455.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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