Monday, June 25, 2007
TI is under an accusation of contamination of groundwater by more than one hundred residents living in a community west of Texas Instruments Inc.'s headquarters.
A recent report from the Dallas Business Journal said that aspects of a plume spread in the area, which is linked to older storage tanks from TI.
While several residents have claimed respiratory, skin, and kidney problems, attorneys for the group are making claims of property damage.
A TI spokeswoman said that the company believes the suit is without merit. She said that the company is not claiming there has been no plume migration, but that that in 20 years of monitoring, there have been "no adverse impacts to Hamilton Park."
All plume samples have "tested below the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality's most conservative regulatory level," she said.
Meanwhile, community groups in Mountain View, Calif. and Albuquerque, N.M. have also initiated lawsuits over similar plume spreads from older wafer fab operations that used volatile organic compounds, such as trichloroethane (TCA), trichloroethylene (TCE), and tetracholoroethane (PCE).
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