Report To EPA: Don t Make The Same Mistake In Franklin, Thoroughly Investigate Pollution
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This model estimates water contamination from the Amphenol site (red outline) could have spread farther than the EPA s groundwater study area (yellow). Warmer colors show higher possible levels of the cancer-causing chemical TCE.
Courtesy of Mundell
A new report urges the Environmental Protection Agency to fully investigate the pollution in Franklin before coming up with a final cleanup plan and avoid mistakes it made decades ago. Leftover contamination from old industrial sites in the area is thought to have caused rare child cancers.
Report on potential contamination from Franklin Amphenol site shows possible spread
Mundell and Associates groundwater models show potential contamination from the Amphenol site might have spread outside Hurricane Creek and East King Street.
Credit: WTHR Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 5:16 PM EDT June 1, 2021
FRANKLIN, Indiana A new study of potential contamination in Franklin, Indiana suggests additional testing needs to be done to check if dangerous chemicals have spread beyond areas originally tested.
Mundell & Associates, an environmental consulting firm, created a groundwater plume model to suggest where contamination from the former site of the Amphenol Corporation plant may have spread. We re just trying to close the data gaps. Once those data gaps are closed, people can have a greater confidence that the situation that they ve found out there has been delineated that it s been going to be properly remediated and that everyone can