[CPEO-BIF] TCE from former auto parts factory and landfill keep Missouri Caverns closed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meramec Caverns likely to remain closed for holiday weekend

By Blythe Bernhard 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
May 26, 2016


Outdoor opportunities for the traditional start of the summer season will not include tours of Meramec Caverns on the coming holiday weekend.

Barring a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the caves will remain closed because of potentially harmful vapors that were discovered late last year. Visitors to the popular Franklin County tourist destination are down 90 percent since March, when the caves were closed.

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The EPA says the vapors in the caves likely came from a former auto parts factory and a landfill more than 4 miles away in Sullivan. Both are associated with a Superfund site on the EPA’s national priorities list since 2002. The factory owner, TRW, is responsible for the costs of reducing the levels of TCE in the caverns. The work is expected to involve improvements to air ventilation systems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/meramec-caverns-likely-to-remain-closed-for-holiday-weekend/article_822ba3ea-3d6a-57e3-a387-6a595753f526.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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