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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 10:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "K2 clean up effort will address ground water pollution, " Vachon Island, Washington State
 
K2 clean up effort will address ground water pollution

by ANNELI FOGT
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber (WA) 
May 4, 2016

More than six months after a report revealed contaminants in the groundwater under the former K2 site, the company's environmental consulting service has agreed to determine the scope of the pollution.

A September 2015 site characterization done by K2's environmental consulting company, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), indicated that the organic compound trichloroethane (TCE) was found in groundwater under the facility. However, Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE) officials said in a November opinion letter that ERM's report did not define the scope of the TCE pollution.

"... it is apparent that the vertical extent of TCE in ground water has not been defined," the opinion letter stated.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/378070901.html

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