[CPEO-MEF] Pools Prairie Superfund Site, Neosho, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup one step closer

By Whitney Saporito
Neosho Daily News (MO)
July 21, 2012

Neosho, Mo. - Cleanup of the Pools Prairie Superfund Site is one step  
closer to completion.

Dwight Douglas, president of the Community Advisory Group that has  
been working toward the cleanup, announced the progress Thursday in a  
meeting with area officials and engineers.

The contaminated spot, located near Crowder College on Doniphan  
Drive, is the last of four sites in the Crowder area.

Douglas said the soil in that area is contaminated with  
trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated hydrocarbon used commonly as  
an industrial solvent and left over from the 1960s construction of  
Apollo rocket engines.

...

He said the four potential responsible parties are the Department of  
Defense, as Air Force plant 65 was once located there; Boeing North  
America, successor to Rocketdyne Neosho, which was also located on  
that site at one time; and Saberliner Corporation and Teledyne, as  
they, too, were once located on that site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.neoshodailynews.com/features/x798867629/Cleanup-one-step- 
closer

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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