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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:14:37 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Oconomowoc Electroplating site, Ashippun, Wisconsin
 
EPA seeks to revise electroplating cleanup


Watertown Daily Times (WI)
November 12, 2010


ASHIPPUN - After 20 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources want to revise the original cleanup plan for the Oconomowoc Electroplating Co. Inc. site in the town of Ashippun.

According to the EPA, the active treatment system is no longer effective in removing the leftover contamination. Under Superfund law, the EPA needs to amend the original cleanup plan.

...

In 1990, the EPA adopted a plan for cleaning up on-site groundwater that was contaminated by toxic metals and volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs. The VOCs included trichloroethylene or TCE, used in electroplating and degreasing operations and vinyl chloride, produced when TCE degrades in the natural environment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2010/11/13/news/news3.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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