‘Green goo’ revealed toxic leak at WV zinc plant
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- ‘Green goo’ revealed toxic leak at WV zinc plant
- Green dream becomes a costly nightmare in Amherst
- fficials say GM cleanup may be costly
‘Green goo’ revealed toxic leak at WV zinc plant
The Associated Press
— For at least five years before Rebecca Morlock noticed what she calls “a green goo” seeping out of the ground below a former zinc-smelting plant in the town of Spelter water loaded with potentially toxic heavy metals was trickling into the West Fork River. State environmental inspectors didn’t spot it even though they’re required to walk the site twice a year. Neither did the engineering firm hired by DuPont to inspect the site monthly to ensure toxic waste remains sealed under a layer of earth and plastic. “How this missed us is to this point a mystery” says Ron Potesta president of Potesta & Associates. “I wish we had found it ourselves.
Green dream becomes a costly nightmare in Amherst
Buffalo News
A grant is providing new incentive to dismantle the town’s $8 million pelletization system designed to convert sewer sludge into marketable fertilizer. Few programs have cost Amherst as much money or embarrassment. From the very beginning the plant created more drama than revenue. More than 900 tons of pellets which resemble smelly peppercorns were thrown away last year alone according to town data. “How far do we keep investing dollars into a product that we aren’t successful in marketing out?” said Council Member Guy Marlette board liaison to the town’s Solid Waste Committee. “At some point we have to face the reality the whole program is not providing us what our intention was. ” In a go-green era promoting recycling and reuse the pelletization program would seem to have a brighter future ahead — but the opposite is true.
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fficials say GM cleanup may be costly
Mansfield News Journal
After 10 years of starts and stops the site finally was cleared for redevelopment in December 2007. Among the multiple poisons the hio Environmental Protection Agency uncovered there were asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls — better known as PCBs. “Those are usually what you find” said Ed McCabe whose firm McCabe Engineering has overseen dozens of plant cleanup projects in hio and surrounding states. PCBs were widely used as transformer coolants in the 1950s and 1960s until they were banned in 1974 for among other things causing liver damage among humans. They also are suspected carcinogens. When private industry pulls up stakes it is government that is often forced into dealing with the long-term effects. President Barack bama ordered GM to set aside $1.
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