[CPEO-BIF] Modine site public availability session, Camdenton, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Left on their own? DNR session on TCE confusing to citizens

Instead of presenting Camdenton citizens affected by TCE contamination from a former manufacturing plant for the last 20 years with new information regarding recent environmental testing and abatement procedures, representatives of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources decided it was best for those citizens to interpret the complex geological data themselves.

By CODY MROCZKA
Lake News (Camdenton, MO)
April 12, 2017

Instead of presenting Camdenton citizens affected by TCE contamination from a former manufacturing plant for the last 20 years with new information regarding recent environmental testing and abatement procedures, representatives of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources decided it was best for those citizens to interpret the complex geological data themselves.

TCE, or trichloroethylene, is a chemical commonly used as an industrial solvent. It was in use in the past under multiple manufacturers at the industrial site located at 221 Sunset, Camdenton. Degreasers in the former manufacturing processes used TCE.

In what the department called a “public availability session” held on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at Camdenton High School, no media was allowed to record and only one out of the nearly ten representatives from MoDNR, Modine, CH2M Hill, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and Hullett Lagoon and Mulberry Well super fund sites was made available for comment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20170412/left-on-their-own-dnr-session-on-tce-confusing-to-citizens

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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