
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 18, 1990                   TAG: 9004180443
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: southwest bureau
DATELINE: IVANHOE                                LENGTH: Short

IVANHOE HEARING SET ON CLEANING UP TOXINS

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Waste Management will hold a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss cleanup work at the old National Carbide plant in Ivanhoe.

The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Ivanhoe Civic League building at Main Street and Churchill Road.

Since last July, the EPA has been overseeing the removal of transformers stored in a building at the site. The transformers were leaking polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a cancer-causing industrial waste.

The agency now is testing soil and water on the site to determine if more work is needed.

by CNB