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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 15:22:16 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Boys & Girls Club officials 'closely monitor' Whirlpool pollution movement, " Fort Smith, Arkansas
 
Boys & Girls Club officials ‘closely monitor’ Whirlpool pollution movement

by Michael Tilley
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
January 7, 2014


Jerry Glidewell has been concerned for more than six months about the small amounts of cancer-causing TCE pollution from Whirlpool’s Fort Smith plant found under the Evans Boys & Girls Club property, but said so far he is “comfortable” that the pollution is not a threat to the hundreds of children, parents and club employees who use the facility.

Glidewell, executive director of the Fort Smith Boys & Girls Club, said other groups, including high school baseball and softball teams, also use the facility, which is one of four club locations in the city.

When the existence of trichloroethylene (TCE) became more broadly known, Whirlpool officials said a groundwater well ban in the vicinity was all that was necessary to deal with the issue. However, more was learned about the pollution plume and the size of contamination has grown and moved in and around the area near Whirlpool’s closed manufacturing plant in south Fort Smith. Whirlpool closed its Fort Smith refrigerator manufacturing plant in June 2012.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/36007

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