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Aileen
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Dry-cleaning was conducted at the building after 1971 and is the suspected source of the pollution. There were no laws restricting dry-cleaning chemicals at that time.
The chemicals used in this dry-cleaning process were Trichloroethane (TCA) and Tetrachloroethene (PCE). Also, two spot cleaning stations used volatile TCA that evaporated and was vented outside. These are the same pollutants found at and around the site.
The Virginia Department of Health first discovered pollution at the plant in 1993. Aileen, Inc. contracted for National Environmental Technologies, Inc. of Charlotte, N.C. to perform tests on monitoring wells and domestic wells in June 1994, December 1994, and June 1995. Their tests concluded that the direction of groundwater is to the northeast in the direction of the town of Flint Hill. The property is located in the Piedmont Physiographic geologic province is within the Hickman Run drainage basin.
Up-gradient of the Aileen property is a man-made pond that is also the source of a small stream. It flows north beneath the building and reappears at the building’s wastewater treatment plant. From there the stream flows
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