[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: Ohio Rubber site, near Clevand (OH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Poisonous gas once manufactured at former Ohio Rubber Co. site

Rubber News
April 10, 2013

                                                                                                                        , Ohio - During its heyday, Ohio Rubber Co. manufactured a variety of rubber products, including gaskets used in sump pumps and caskets.

But rubber wasn'pot the only compound manufactured on the site.

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Chemical Warfare Service leased the property for six months in 1918 - then the Ben Hur Automobile Factory - to produce lewisite, a chemical agent used in warfare.

Now the Army Corps of Engineers is seeking information concerning the former Ohio Rubber Co. site that could help the organization clean up the grounds if they are found to be contaminated. The Army Corps has taken out advertisements in several Northeast Ohio publications, asking that anyone who might have information about the site contact the department.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20130410/NEWS/130419999/poisonous-gas-once-manufactured-at-former-ohio-rubber-co-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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