[CPEO-BIF] Borg-Warner, Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BorgWarner cleaning up polluted ground water
One of the contaminants of concern is TCE, a solvent used to remove grease.

By SETH SLABAUGH
Muncie Star Press (IN)
May 3, 2009


MUNCIE -- BorgWarner is voluntarily cleaning up ground-water 
contamination from its drivetrain facility that closed a week ago nearly 
80 years after opening.

The company has been participating in the Indiana Department of 
Environmental Management's voluntary remediation program for years.

"The contaminants of concern are BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene 
and xylene), MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether), TCE (trichloroethylene) 
and its breakdown products, including vinyl chloride," said Barry Sneed, 
a spokesman for IDEM.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090503/NEWS01/905030326

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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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