[CPEO-BIF] "Whirlpool Says Revisions To Cleanup Plan ‘Premature,’" Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Whirlpool Says Revisions To Cleanup Plan ‘Premature’

By Chad Hunter
Southwest Times Record (AR)
February 26, 2015
Whirlpool Corp. is asking the state to withdraw proposed revisions to  
a contamination cleanup plan that, in part, call for additional soil  
removal at the company’s closed Fort Smith plant.

Working with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for  
more than a decade, Whirlpool was given the nod in December 2013 for  
a cleanup plan, called a Remedial Action Decision Document or RADD,  
to address trichloroethylene, a toxic substance known as TCE, in  
groundwater and soil at the plant, which closed in 2012. The state  
now is seeking changes to the plan that include additional, large- 
diameter soil borings and thermal desorption, a soil heating technique.

According to Whirlpool, following the removal of soil and chemical  
treatment of groundwater in 2014, TCE concentrations decreased by  
more than 50 percent in some areas.


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For the entire article, see
http://swtimes.com/news/whirlpool-says-revisions-cleanup-plan-premature

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Lenny Siegel
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