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SETTLEMENT REQUIRES NEW MEXICO COMPANY TO CLEAN UP POLLUTION, PAY $1.65 MILLION
Release Date: 01/20/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2000
SETTLEMENT REQUIRES NEW MEXICO COMPANY
TO CLEAN UP POLLUTION, PAY $1.65 MILLION
Spartan Technology Inc., based in Rio Rancho, N.M., will clean up the soil and a plume of groundwater contaminated by pollution from wastes at its Albuquerque electronic components manufacturing facility and also pay out $1.65 million, under a settlement filed by EPA and the Department of Justice on Jan. 18 in federal court in Albuquerque. The pollution, primarily trichloroethylene and trichloroethane which are considered by EPA to be probable human carcinogens, seeped into the soil and groundwater in amounts exceeding federal drinking water standards and state groundwater standards. The affected groundwater is part of a group of aquifers that is the sole source of drinking water for the Albuquerque area. The company payments totaling $1.65 million will be made to the New Mexico Natural Resources Trustee, the State of New Mexico, the City of Albuquerque and the United States Government. Spartan is also required to install a groundwater recovery system to cut off the flow of contaminants from the plant site to the off-site plume, to operate a soil vapor extraction system to remove contaminants from contaminated soils, to assess whether these systems are effectively restoring the groundwater and to evaluate whether alternate remedial strategies should be employed. The consent decree will become legally binding when approved and entered by the federal District Court, following a 30-day public comment period.
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