[CPEO-MEF] Chamberlain Manufacturing, Waterloo, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chamberlain contamination focus of meeting Thursday

By TIM JAMISON
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA)
November 9, 2009

WATERLOO - Underground soil contamination at the former Chamberlain 
Manufacturing Corp. plant apparently has spread through groundwater 
underneath surrounding homes.

...

"There is a potential for an unacceptable long-term risk," said 
Stephanie Doolan of the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 
office in Kansas City, Kan. "The next step is we need to define the 
number of homes that are potentially affected."

The city and EPA have been working since 2003 to conduct environmental 
tests and demolish blighted buildings at the former defense contractor's 
plant at 550 Esther St. Previous testing found concentrations of 
volatile organic compounds, including trichloroethene, on the site, with 
lead and other heavy metals in sediment leaving the property to the east.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_85e9cf0c-cd43-11de-848f-001cc4c002e0.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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