TAMPA BAY 2. (Qe Wearescey. August 2 2008 | 18 Raytheon spotty on cleanup Programs are under way at many Faw aap eet ST PETERSRURG— Overand over inthe 1990s, dtense con tractor Raytheon bought ott ome. Even ues iner sedan enscommental peach ‘Chetnals used by those compa Dish epithe a. More than 90 federal bv suits nave sought to make Hay {een afr erating clear Ingup tained sil Residents of SU Potesturys avalon seighbor hoodia Apel became the test seek Hal bel cera quik dtcomup. Tut Raytheoms teaek record shri the Azalen neighbor’ may be waitnesvhie ‘an Arizona st, tne compa ang clearap ork Smt tained ‘ater to 2.000 pepe e may lake 20 yenrsto dais Califo, Rptheow adlted to Teakiug ebemitals bur would tke responsbity for eleanp. anians, 00k tne US. Env ronmental Protseion ABenCY 10 Deed etheem inaction Toda Raytheon runs remed- ation programs im 48 locations, costing Stebel, accorsins Uncempary pons Attorneys fr te Azalea res- sens Wa eer tase agit aythcono goto tal amc. “This i a pressing environ mental jsue that Raseton Fas pu of oto ong er sites, and some may take decades fora remedy. van gars ‘Aralea resents vere stm in March wen they lamest of contamination beneath thelr homes from chermleals once Stored at Sst nats Thao sctite Mall. Ravtheow Knew about the pollution wnen it hennghe Esystems m 1098, snd 2B See RAYTHEON 5Doth state and company of ils have Known since 1609 {ha the plame had spread Roytlioon, whieh fees am Aug. 1 deadline for report img tho full extent ofthe under sro contamination, siives to be a good neighbor, says spokesman Jonathan Kase “Raye hesays“akesits stewardship esponsibiiies i0 its employees and the comma fly seriously” But people who ave dealt vwien Rayenonn on ata clean ups sav the compeny hast ‘poonall thar coperatve “In theory, they should be pang Sde-ysde vith us? said Matthew Jefferson, the EPA remedial project iharager on fan Atizona site. “But some: tumas es realy ough.” Hughes Aircraft opened a manufacturing plant in Tue Son i 1980, Like Io.s of other surereft and eleetrenies com. Danies. Hughes used the chem "eals uienloretnylene, oF TCE, and Ledioxane to desrease etal Noone knew thom that ‘hey might crise cancer ‘Gxer the years, the ehomicals leaked inte the soil Tho con ‘amimtion spread and oven ally made its way into the Ti Son water suppl The pofuion eas frst found in 1078 sn residents’ private vse T1298, unusta case ter of eaten probloms” includ Ing cancer and lupus, spronied ‘uparcundthe sts, .ccording to a Ualversiy of Arzoma report uughos officials were ecused ottiding what they ad cone BPA pus the site on its Superund is in 2085.10 00, EHiughes settled a classaction Suir $4 seion. Si years later, Rovtheon bought she Plant, kiowing the potion ‘nas sti here Raytheon bust what was thena state-of the artcleanup fueilty wo bande the TCE, 2 ferson said, but the dickane remained. in 2008, the EPA found that Raytheon’ cleanup facil Vas along unset els of TCE in vater being used ys0,006 Tucson resdents Last year, the EPA ordered Raytheon t9 clean up the dioxane and upgrade the now out-ofdate TCE purnp-and-treatfacllty Jetler- Son said the cleanup is making [progress out is unlikely to he finished for up to 30 years. Hughes operated a simi- Jar facility tn Oceanside, Calif. ‘hich Raytheon purchased it 1097 despite the sites problemas vith TCE contamination. In 2002, government offcials dis covered the TCE nad spread 10 ‘the water supply. The California Regional ‘Water Quality Control Board fined Raytheon $6,000. Another agency, the North ‘Couney Transit Distnet, sted te company in 2006 to make Raytheon clean up the pollu- tsonsoitcouldbuilda railroad. Initially, Raythoon conceded that the contamimation eame ‘rom is site but dee tat it ‘yas responsible for cleaning it up. When the suit seted in 200%, Ruythoon agreed 10 pay $$25000 toward a claarup About 0 miles south, 1m ‘Ria Cali, Hughes operated » The chemicals ‘Tichloroethylene (TCE): anonftammable,colodess lquicusadte degrecco mora, butalco sean ingredientin adhesives paintramavers ana spot removers, ‘44 dioxane: loa, dc sevabieliquidused as sohentinthernanufactuna ‘atcnameasand.asa ano ratory reagent Perohlorateracclcroes. cers satused tomake ‘explosives, frenorks and rocketmetars sel Saran ‘mise pant: Poimtion rom the plu as die detected Ln alo’ drmking wate in 19 ‘Sen wells were shut down ‘when teats fora Teves More Than 1500 tines aster tan ‘what is consierer ste a Thon Doug he latin 005, ‘2001 Ragtneon as fed 00 for etn te cota sion spred-The oy sted ‘company for deunup expen Altpougn Mako dropped the Salt ite otil skin repay ‘mene tram Rastheon Fa hve the dy provices aaa Wet ment othe water chara Tweurteaver. ‘egining in the 19408, Beech Alrcraft operated at ‘he T-Coun Pate Arpore In Herington, Kau Rayehoon Dost the operation in ss. Raytheon 1903 annual ‘epare sia he compan as fined 8521755 1m 1080 fo ll ime to meee wastewater oi change tandars Tat sped {US amy Comsat Eneneers Invesitition nto Raytheans waste storage polices, mich Ted to the dscovery of TCE in ‘the groimarrater ‘Ordered to vestigate pos: se contamination of Pos ‘Merial wells In 2000, Raye ‘neon na were mesa pat ted, according to the Kane ss Department of Health ane Environment. But in 2003 ‘when the department ordered Rastheon to us up Uh pole ‘ion, siecompany tense "ie as anaes Hed to get she EPA'to step n> ad Jean Uderwcod sie reepelaton rite fo ene Kans neath "The EPA began cleamap in sprig 2008, ur wanstered ‘esponsli orckaing nck toxueteon Instead Rayan. ‘Sec the EPS elm ee fcament was responsible or emu. The mle. Rok ‘other EPA order, in 2005, to gee Raytheon tr estend a Pipeline int te tows to pro eel ater and cig "TeEcontamlnated sl, At is Fees sh, hoon says tis se to ben & pumpand-test pecs Sean up the comaaiaion imsee ste shine Nee po dis The coun fa Ang 20 sa 1S proper and nove to Lana!