[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: TCE appeal in Myrtle Beach (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

AVX appeals federal pollution ruling

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
July 11, 2011

Electronics parts maker AVX Corp. will appeal a federal judge’s  
ruling that the company is entirely responsible for environmental  
cleanup costs at land adjacent to its Myrtle Beach manufacturing site.

Judge Terry Wooten ruled in May that AVX must pay all of the costs --  
estimated at $6 million -- to clean trichloroethylene, or TCE, from  
groundwater at property along 17th Avenue South that used to be owned  
by Horry Land Co.

That property is part of a 10-block Myrtle Beach neighborhood where  
groundwater has been contaminated with TCE that migrated from the AVX  
facility.

AVX had claimed in a lawsuit that the federal government was  
responsible for some of the pollution because the military used TCE  
on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, which was located near the  
contaminated site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/07/11/2272623/avx-appeals-federal- 
pollution.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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