BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Work is expected to begin soon in a Vermont town to remove vestiges of PFOA chemicals from the former ChemFab Corp. factory.
Richard Spiese, of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, says the state has received a corrective action plan for the North Bennington plant.
“Work has not begun yet,” Spiese told the Bennington Banner in an email.
The work had been scheduled to begin in April, but it was delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The plant’s former owner, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, is funding the project.
The plan calls for removing insulation contaminated with the chemicals while ChemFab operated there from 1978 to 2002. In addition, concrete walls and floors, metal surfaces, steel beams and posts and other surfaces will be cleaned and asbestos removed from the building.
ChemFab coated fabrics and liquid Teflon at plants in Bennington and North Bennington for more than 30 years until 2002 when the operations moved to New Hampshire. Saint-Gobain acquired ChemFab in 2000.
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