More tests have discovered further contamination of groundwater at a second site of the abandoned Midwest City Eagle Industries company.
City council members in Oklahoma City learned of the discovery in the past week and decided to continue with more testing. The discovery came in a second round of tests after the initial contamination from trichloroethylene dumped and leaked at the site at 8826 and 8828 SE 29th was found last fall.
The latest discovery is at a second site just two miles from the first. It is located at 10901 SE 29. The finding was made by SCS Engineers, a firm hired at a cost of $24,681 by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality to carry out the tests.
The firm found TCE in three of four test wells but it was not in high concentrations.
Midwest City entered into the EPA’s brownfields program where cleanup is voluntary and a site doesn’t qualify to be a Superfund cleanup site. The city has decided it will seek a certificate of no action from the DEQ which would mean no environmental cleanup is needed at the site.
The contamination does not affect drinking water in the area. The sites were abandoned in 2010. Eagle Industries used the TC in cleaning used aircraft engine parts which were resold. It first operated at 8828 SE 29 but the facility was closed, only to be reopened at 10901 SE 29.
