[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Otterbein College, OH

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Agreement reached on cleaning up former bomb-factory site at Otterbein


By  Kathy Lynn Gray
Columbus Dispatch (OH)
May 9, 2012

After 60 years and two federal lawsuits, a former incendiary-bomb  
factory in Westerville is on its way to being cleaned up.



Otterbein University, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Ohio  
Environmental Protection Agency have settled their lawsuits against  
each other with a consent decree that assigns no blame for the  
ongoing contamination of the 40-acre site at 600 N. Spring Rd. in  
Delaware County.

...

An EPA study found soil containing arsenic, perchlorate, chromium,  
lead and petroleum hydrocarbons and ground water containing thallium  
and copper. It also concluded the site could have a number of other  
potentially toxic chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/05/09/otterbein- 
munitions-site.html

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