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NOBLESVILLE, IND. LEDGER -D. 8,668- INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN AREA APR28I98.3_ Another Dump :on Contaminated ' BLOOMINGTON, Ind:- PCB's have, been linked to | (UPI) -- The problems ' cancer and .were used in the - Bloomington officials are making of electric motors ; having with PCBs have ap until1 banned several years parently intensified with the ago. ; disclosure another dump site The City of Bloomington has with contaminated capacitors filed ' suits against Lwas uncovered about two Westinghouse and the Mpn-_ I miles northwest of the city. santo Chemical Corp. for $327 I Monroe, County Health million, alleging PCB con ; Commissioner Steve Creech tamination of two other sites confirmed Wednesday the -- the Lemon Lane dump and dump site was located on. Neal's Landfill -- in Monroe property adjacent to the County near Bloomingtori!1 Bennett . Stone Co., The The suits allege the PCBs property . apparently was reached the city sewer system owned by Edwin Bennett, and contaminated ' a . now officials said. - abandoned waste treatment But officials said no im plant. >' , . . mediate. hazards to public * The city was seeking money health were anticipated. ' for the clean up operation. Creech said the Indiana The federal government State Board of Health and the also has filed suits in federal Environmental Protection court at Indianapolis against Agency were notified of the the companies. - site when it was first reported Observers' said the' new/ [ in the past two weeks. waste site could be larger than Officials reported finding, either the Lemon or Neal j electric capacitors of the type areas which have'been listeidd/ t previously dumped in two by the EPA. as/among the)&' other sites where the worst hazardous wastf Westinghouse Electric Co. disposal sites in the country/ j discarded materials during the 1950s and 1960s. The capacitors also . had . markings showing they were made, by Westinghouse. Indications were that the ; . dump' was used 20 or more years ago blit never brought to the attention of officials'until' recently. Officials said a man , volunteered the information, ' claiming he used to go to the' siteasaboy. > ' , ` ______________________ . ' . /