[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, GLOBAL: "Boeing wants help with cleanup of former Arnprior [ONT] plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Boeing wants help with cleanup of former Arnprior plant

by Robert Bostelaar
Ottawa Citizen (ONT)
June 10, 2014

For decades, technicians at the Arnprior military base-turned-factory  
relied on a solvent called trichloroethylene - TCE, for short - to  
clean grease from aircraft parts.

Only after the 1980s, when the compound was found to cause cancer,  
did the aviation industry and other TCE users begin seeking safer  
alternatives.

Today, traces of the chemical remain in the soil and even the bedrock  
at the site between the TransCanada Highway and the Madawaska River,  
extending in a 25-acre plume beyond the boundaries of the one-time  
Boeing plant now operated by Arnprior Aerospace.

...

For the entire article, see
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/boeing-wants-help-with- 
cleanup-of-former-arnprior-plant

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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