[CPEO-BIF] "EPA will test Bettendorf neighborhood for hazardous chemical contamination, " Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA will test Bettendorf neighborhood for hazardous chemical contamination
	
by Alma Gaul 
Quad City Times
March 12, 2018

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is investigating possible hazardous chemical contamination to the environment in an area of Bettendorf around Tanglefoot Lane between Devils Glen and Middle roads.

During the week of March 19-23, air, groundwater and soil samples will be taken at about 40 properties within a two-mile radius of a site south of Tanglefoot that was used for waste disposal before disposal was subject to governmental regulation.

The 18-acre site is undeveloped, rough-terrain ground filled with grass, brush and trees. From the 1950s into the '70s, the land was leased by its owner, Harry Meinert, for municipal dumping by the city of Riverdale and industrial disposal by Alcoa (now Arconic) and the former Bendix Corp., of Davenport, according to an assessment provided by the EPA Region 7 office in Kansas City.

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For the entire article, see
http://qctimes.com/news/local/epa-will-test-bettendorf-neighborhood-for-contamination/article_776ec653-5c1a-5f75-8906-89392f56d176.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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