[CPEO-BIF] "A group of Wichita [Kansas] neighbors are suing Textron for a chemical plume under their homes"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A group of Wichita neighbors are suing Textron for a chemical plume under their homes

By Meg Britton-Mehlisch
KMUW Public Media (KS)
May 5, 2025

A chemical plume of trichloroethylene, or TCE, was discovered in the 1990s and traced back to an airplane manufacturing plant in east Wichita. 

A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane manufacturing plant across the street has created “a blight on their community.”
Attorneys representing the group say that they think 200 to 300 homes sit above a toxic plume of chemicals, putting residents' health at risk and damaging their property values.

In 1993, Raytheon — then owner of the aviation plant — discovered solvent contamination in the soil and groundwater. The solvents were tracked back to three buildings on the campus where employees used equipment like vapor degreasers to clean and prepare metal for manufacturing.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.kcur.org/2025-05-05/a-group-of-wichita-neighbors-are-suing-textron-for-a-chemical-plume-under-their-homes

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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