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Carter EPA site

shared by Lamar Miller on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
  • Adeola Adewale on 15 Jun 11
     
    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
  • Lamar Miller on 30 Jun 11
     
    Plans
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