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.
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.