City Wire (AR)
by R. Saylor
April 8, 2013
Whirlpool has submitted a revised remediation plan for the company's
former Fort Smith manufacturing site and surrounding areas contaminated
by trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer causing chemical that
Whirlpool has admitted leaked from its facility on the city's south
side.
In a document provided to The City Wire by the Arkansas Department
of Environmental Quality, Whirlpool's environmental consultant, ENVIRON,
says it will participate in an "active site remedy."
The site Whirlpool says is polluted is an area of impacted soil and
groundwater approximately 50 by 250-feet, located west of the company's
former degreasing facility where TCE was used to degrease equipment
until the 1980s.
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