by The City Wire staff - August 13, 2014 9:42 am
A request by Whirlpool Corporation to add additional monitoring wells at the northeast corner of its shuttered manufacturing plant and adjacent properties in south Fort Smith has been approved by…
by The City Wire staff - August 5, 2014 5:16 pm
Whirlpool has proposed additionally monitoring and testing of water and soil samples at sites near its now-shuttered manufacturing facility in south Fort Smith following detection of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the…
by The City Wire staff - July 8, 2014 9:34 pm
Officials involved in the remediation efforts of the shuttered Whirlpool manufacturing facility gave an update to the Fort Smith Board of Directors on efforts to clean up a plume of…
by The City Wire staff - July 3, 2014 2:54 pm
Whirlpool announced Thursday (July 3) a settlement with south Fort Smith property owners in a class action lawsuit the owners filed after the company had disclosed that potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene…
by The City Wire staff - June 24, 2014 9:38 am
Whirlpool’s attempts to get vapor intrusion monitors installed in structures above the potentially cancer-causing plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) have not gone according to plan. The company recently disclosed to the…
by The City Wire staff - May 28, 2014 9:04 pm
Officials with Whirlpool will participate in a Fort Smith Board of Directors study session on Tuesday, July 8 at 6 p.m. — a meeting that follows revelations that trichloroethylene (TCE)…
by The City Wire staff - May 21, 2014 6:42 pm
Whirlpool Corp. submitted information Tuesday (May 20) to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality outlining further chemical treatments as part of its remediation plan for the trichloroethylene (TCE) plume in…
by The City Wire staff - May 18, 2014 11:34 am
This news about Whirlpool officials indirectly admitting new details about pollution at their shuttered Fort Smith manufacturing plant tells us more about certain members of the Fort Smith Board of…
by The City Wire staff - May 14, 2014 6:44 pm
An area of highly contaminated soil at the former Whirlpool manufacturing facility has the company's environmental consultants proposing not just chemical oxidation treatments, as previously approved by the Arkansas Department…
by The City Wire staff - April 8, 2014 3:17 pm
The Whirlpool site in Fort Smith that has been the center of a pollution cleanup has now had deed restrictions put in place, limiting certain future activities at the site…
by The City Wire staff - February 25, 2014 1:23 pm
Whirlpool Corporation has submitted yet another revised Revised Final Work Plan to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) as the company prepares to start remediation efforts well ahead of…
by The City Wire staff - February 18, 2014 9:24 pm
A proposal that would have seen the city of Fort Smith seek to impose fines against Whirlpool Corporation for violating the city's nuisance ordinance by spilling trichloroethylene (TCE) at its…
by The City Wire staff - February 17, 2014 6:47 pm
A potential contract with an outside law firm which could lead to steep fines against Whirlpool Corp. for its admitted contamination of a large area on and around its former…
by The City Wire staff - February 11, 2014 3:58 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors for the first time Tuesday (Feb. 11) heard from an attorney who believes the city may have the authority to level fines against Whirlpool…
by The City Wire staff - January 27, 2014 3:16 pm
Full-scale chemical oxidation treatments of a chemical plume in south Fort Smith will not happen until Spring 2016 while a soil monitoring station will be installed in an occupied residence….
by The City Wire staff - January 16, 2014 5:31 pm
Whirlpool on Thursday (Jan. 16) released its annual report detailing the early stages of the cleanup trichloroethylene (TCE) at its former manufacturing facility on the south side of Fort Smith….
by The City Wire staff - December 27, 2013 9:26 pm
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality released its final Remedial Action Decision Document (RADD) for Corrective Action on Friday (Dec. 27) that requires Whirlpool to spend at least $6 million…
by The City Wire staff - December 18, 2013 8:36 pm
A little more than a month after the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality presented its plan to address contamination caused by Whirlpool's admitted leak of trichloroethylene (TCE) into groundwater in…
by The City Wire staff - November 12, 2013 10:43 pm
Officials with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality faced angry Fort Smith residents Monday night (Nov. 12) as they presented official recommendations to Whirlpool on how to clean up a…
by The City Wire staff - October 22, 2013 4:35 pm
Fort Smith City Directors hoping for some sort of October surprise that would have given them broad legal powers to enforce the city's wishes and demands on Whirlpool in their…
