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Friday, March 25, 2005
Environment - More about Marble Hill
Last week the ILB had an entry on blowing up buildings at the former Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant site. This week The Madison Courier has a story titled "Expansion of transformer recycling company raises Marble Hill neighbors’ PCB concerns." It begins:
A company located at Marble Hill has applied to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to store larger quantities of polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. Some local residents are concerned about toxic PCBs being stored in the area.Transformer Decommissioning LLC, which has been operating at 2478 W. Marble Hill Road since 1999, recycles transformers from electric companies. Some of the transformers contain PCBs and are temporarily stored at the Marble Hill site. The company is based in Indianapolis.
Rob Van Vliet, president of Transformer Decommissioning LLC, said residents should not be concerned because very few of the transformers contain PCB, which has not been manufactured in the United States since 1977. Transformers that test positive for PCB are immediately put in a secondary containment area and no one touches them, he said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 25, 2005 06:50 PM
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