Westinghouse/ABB Plant Facility
2008
Weekly Status Reports
Jan 11 | Jan 17
Plant Demolition, 2006
ABB Demo Update Aug 06, 2006
ABB Demolition Plan Update May 2, 2006
Demolition Updates-Spring/Summer 2006
ABB Plant Demolition Plan-Jan 27, 2006
Westinghouse Electric Corporation (now Viacom) manufactured capacitors and other electrical components at their facility located at 300 Curry Pike, Bloomington, Indiana. PCBs were used in the capacitors from 1958 to 1977. The plant has since been sold to ABB Power T & D Company.
You can read a synopsis and update in the Field Sampling Plan.
During construction of these capacitors, PCBs that spilled during manufacture were washed down the drain into the Bloomington sewer system. Defective capacitors were hauled to local landfills: Lemon Lane, Bennett's Dump Neal's Landfill, Neal's Dump, and Anderson Road Landifill.
The plant and the land surrounding the plant were also contaminated with PCBs. In 1995 and 1996 cleanup took place at the plant and material was shipped to a TSCA landfill in Utah for disposal. Remediation of this site was thought to be complete at the time, but testing by ABB has shown significant residual contamination.
ABB drilled and sampled through the floor of the building, as well as cleaned and wipe sampled inside the building. Samples ranged from 84 to 21,000 ppm under the floor. The EPA has enforcement options available to make sure the cleanup is completed here.
In April of 2006, ABB began demolition of the plant, followed by a cleanup up of the contaminated soil by CBS, all monitored by the EPA under TSCA regulations.
ABB Sampling: 2002
ABB-Bennett's Field Sampling Plan
Surface Water Analytical Results
Stout's Creek Split Sample Analytical Evaluation
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