[Brownfields-CPEO] TCE contamination in Olathe, Kansas

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA holds dozen companies responsible for creating new cleanup plan for Olathe neighborhood contamination
Chemical contamination found in groundwater, air in Olathe neighborhood near a former chemical brokerage site

By Isabella Ledonne
KSHB 41 (Kansas City)
October 26, 2026


For decades, companies sent their rejected chemicals to a site in Olathe to be recycled, repurposed and sold to someone else.

But the broker, Chemical Commodities, Inc., didn't properly handle those chemicals. It led to spills, leaks and contamination in the soil beneath the site.

Now, the EPA is looking to hold a dozen companies involved responsible for contributing to decades worth of contamination that hasn't gone away.

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A recent remedy review of the chemical clean up found that TCE could be spreading into homes farther west.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas/johnson-county/epa-holds-dozen-companies-responsible-for-creating-new-cleanup-plan-for-olathe-neighborhood-contamination

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