VERONA, Mo. (KY3) -- Representatives from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency shared what they could Friday with leaders in Verona, Mo. The
EPA is working to discover if a dangerous chemical has seeped into ground and
well water.
The short-notice meeting came a little more than six weeks
after the agency reported it found two dangerous chemicals at the Syntex site.
The site is now operating as BCP Ingredients, but was known to produce Agent
Orange decades ago.
At a public meeting in August, the EPA told residents one of
those chemicals -- dioxin -- was contained, but the agency was not certain
about the status other chemical, dioxane.
Friday, the EPA shared plans to start testing private wells
in Verona for dioxane, but the mayor wants answers much sooner than that.
"Why, when there's questions asked, why ain't there
just an out forthcoming answer?" Mayor Joseph Heck asked EPA officials in
Friday's meeting.
Heck and about a dozen of the people he represents listened
to EPA's plans to see if the chemical is in their ground and drinking water.
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