Eagle Picher tests for trichloroethylene (NM)
From El Defensor Chieftain (NM):
State and federal documents raise the possibility that the Eagle Picher property north of Socorro slipped through the environmental cracks on a number of fronts. A real-time grid survey of the property scheduled Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to determine if that is the case and to what extent.
Sabino Rivera, an environmental specialist with the state Environment Department, said this week that in addition to testing for lead in the soil, the EPA will also be sampling for solvents that were used in different manufacturing processes in the Eagle Picher plant and on the property over three decades. Rivera is the state's Eagle Picher project manager and liaison with the EPA. The state agency conducts monitoring for the federal agency.
Rivera said the primary solvent compound to be sampled in the testing is trichloroethylene, or TCE, which he said has shown up periodically in groundwater tests of some domestic and city wells. He said TCE has shown up in the city's Eagle Picher and Olsen wells. The Olsen well is now offline, according to the city.Related Posts (on one page):
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