[CPEO-BIF] TCE from Johnson Controls site, Goshen, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater contamination spurs $139,000 increase to east side water main project

by JOHN KLINE 
Goshen News (IN)
May 15, 2017

GOSHEN - Goshen Board of Public Works and Safety members Monday approved a $139,000 contract increase with HRP Construction needed to remedy groundwater contamination concerns related to a water main replacement project along Monroe Street on the city’s east side.

News of the contamination issue first arose at the board’s March 20 meeting, during which Goshen Director of Public Works Dustin Sailor informed the board that the city’s ongoing Logan Street, Monroe Street and Cottage Avenue water main replacement project has hit a snag.

According to Sailor, the Monroe Street portion of the project, which got started in early March, needed some significant modification due to recent word from Goshen Brownfield Coordinator Becky Hershberger that groundwater contamination from the former Johnson Controls industrial site, 1302 E. Monroe St., had been found in the path of the Monroe Street portion of the project. Sailor said the contamination was in the form of trichloroethylene (TCE), which can migrate through the traditional gaskets and plastic piping the city normally uses for such water main projects.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.goshennews.com/news/local_news/groundwater-contamination-spurs-increase-to-east-side-water-main-project/article_3cd0ab69-c8a5-5f01-986e-d1558784f31e.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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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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