Columbia, SC: Company Officials Shutdown Plant After State Orders Closing Due to Suspected Leak of Organic Tin Into River

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Columbia, SC: Company Officials Shutdown Plant After State Orders Closing Due to Suspected Leak of Organic Tin Into River

, United States 9/17/2000

Company officials at Cardinal Chemical Co. have told the state of South Carolina that they completed their plant shutdown today, Sunday, (9/17/00) in compliance with an order to do so received from the state Department of Health and Environment Control (DHEC).

Thom Berry, spokesman for DHEC, said the company had delivered a letter saying they had completed the shutdown of the plant.

DHEC ordered the shutdown on Friday after low levels of organic tin compounds were found ina settling pond at Columbia's wastewater treatment plant. The same chemicals were found earlier this year in Lexington County's Red Bank Creek, where they are believed to have caused a massive fish kill.

Cardinal attorney Frederick Crawford has said there is no proof that the chemicals came from the Cardinal plant and that the company would fight the shutdown order.

http://chemsafety.gov/circ/post.cfm?incident_id=4960

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), September 19, 2000


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