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EPA OPENS INFORMATION CENTER FOR DISMANTLEMENT OF CONTAMINATED BUILDING IN KANSAS CITY, MO

Release Date: 02/08/2005
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February 8, 2005

EPA OPENS INFORMATION CENTER FOR DISMANTLEMENT OF CONTAMINATED BUILDING IN KANSAS CITY, MO

EPA Region 7 is opening a public information center during the dismantlement of the contaminated PCB Treatment Inc. (PTI) building at 2100 Wyandotte Street in Kansas City, Mo. The information center is located at 2120 Wyandotte Street, immediately south of the PTI building.

The center, staffed by EPA personnel, is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Thursday evenings until 7 p.m. Neighbors and others interested in the activities can visit the information center to learn more about the dismantlement process and the EPA Superfund cleanup program.

The 2100 Wyandotte building was contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) during the operation of a PCB reclamation business from 1982 until 1987. PCBs are suspected of causing cancer in humans that are exposed over a long period of time.

The building will be dismantled from the top floor down. Dust suppression will be performed during all phases of the building dismantlement to assure that unsafe levels of contaminated dust

are not generated or released. Debris will be conveyed to the ground floor via interior shafts and loaded onto covered trucks. The trucks will transport the contaminated debris to a landfill in Oklahoma; the non-contaminated debris be disposed of at the Courtney Ridge Landfill in Sugar Creek, Mo. Construction activities are expected to be complete in June 2005.