[CPEO-MEF] DISPOSAL: Emhart Industries and the Woonasquatucket River (RI)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pentagon Should Pay Too, Polluter Says

By ALEXANDRIA D'ANGELO
Courthouse News Service
February 1, 2011

PROVIDENCE (CN) - Emhart Industries, a dissolved Connecticut 
corporation, claims the Defense Department should foot some of the bill 
for cleaning pollution from the Woonasquatucket River. Emhart claims the 
Navy and Air Force sent it the contaminated steel drums for cleaning, so 
the Pentagon should pay the bill from the U.S. EPA for cleaning up one 
of Rhode Island's largest industrialized rivers.

Emhart, corporate successor to Metro-Atlantic, ran a hexachlorophene 
plant in 1964 and a reconditioning plant for steel drums from 1952 until 
the early 1970s at the contaminated site in the floodplain of the 
Woonasquatucket River. The site was placed on the National Priorities 
List in March 2000.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/02/01/33780.htm
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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