2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 00:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Grain fumigant, Hanover, Kansas
 
KDHE plans meeting on contamination


By TIM UNRUH
Salina Journal (KS)
May 15, 2009

HANOVER -- The Kansas Department of Health & Environment plans a public meeting 7 p.m. May 28 at the Kloppenberg Senior Center in Hanover to provide results of an ongoing investigation into contamination at a former grain storage site.

A grain fumigant used at a federal grain storage site at Hanover from 1950 through the early 1970s has contaminated soil, groundwater and indoor air in Hanover, and the underground plume has moved under the town, KDHE officials said Wednesday in a conference call from Topeka.

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The fumigant, known as 80-20, consisting of 80 percent carbon tetrachloride and 20 percent carbon disulfide, was used at the grain storage site where there were several metal grain bins.

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Vapor intrusion is a concern in some homes built over the grain storage site, but it can be dealt with using aeration equipment similar to that used for radon mitigation, he said, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay for it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/contamination-in-Hanover-51309

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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