EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views
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The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
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“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).
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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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