Tests under way on 1989 chemical spill at UP yard in Cheyenne
(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 21, 2010.)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Tests are under way in a Cheyenne area for lingering effects of a 1989 spill at the Union Pacific railroad yards.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle Department reports that the state Department of Environmental Quality says about 8,000 gallons of a dry-cleaning chemical leaked from a tanker car in 1989.
The railroad says state officials approved its plan for a cleanup after the spill. The company says it later learned that underground contamination moved off its property.
State officials say they got involved in 2005 when Union Pacific reported the contamination was beyond its property.
Bunnie Fountain, who has lived near the yard since 1981, says the first she heard of the spill was last week when she received a notice of the study.
