RE: (ET) Capacitor removal...

["Hazen, Dwight L" <hazen indiana edu>]

I live in Bloomington Indiana. We are a EPA super fund site for PCB 
cleanup.
They (meaning your tax dollars) had to haul the trash dump site dirt and 
all
too some other site that was rated for PCB. It was a huge effort. Now we
have one site that has been entombed and covered with a rubber membrane and
a water treatment plant just to take care of the water from a spring under
the old dump site.  

A quick google of "pcb Bloomington in" resulted in this.

http://www.copa.org

http://web.greens.org/s-r/078/07-41.html

Even if you do not believe all of this, you do NOT want this to happen to
your town.


 Dwight 


-----Original Message-----
From: RJ Kanary [mailto:rjkanary nauticom net] 
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:32 PM
To: Hazen, Dwight L; elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Capacitor removal...

They are most definitely there.Once you have experienced the aroma, you 
will
never forget it.I had a capacitor that had started leaking. I called the
poison control center in Pittsburgh, concerning how to properly dispose of
it. Believe it or not, the recommendation was, to wrap it in several 
plastic
bags, and dispose of it in the trash. The logic, if you can call it that,
was the amount of PCB was so small, it posed no danger. I hope that fifty
other people do not get the same idea, at the same time. Especially if they
all have the same refuse hauler.


RJ Kanary
Member TRNi  Since 1998
ASE(r) Certified Master Auto Technician

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