radio corporation america

RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Currently, the RCA trademark is owned by the French conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson. The trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Thomson SA, which licenses the name to other companies like Audiovox and TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor. Both GE and Thomson spent millions of dollars for cleanup, removing 10,000 cubic yards (7,600 m3) of soil and installing municipal water treatment facilities for neighboring communities.The former RCA facility located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, also has a marred environmental legacy. RCA owned the facility from the late 1940s to June 1986. According to EPA's "Toxic Releases for Reporting Year 1987", the facility released over 250,000 pounds of pollutants per year in stack emissions. Investigated by the EPA in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the main contaminants in the groundwater at the facility are trichloroethylene (TCE) and 1,2-dichloroethylene (1,2-DCE). Contaminants were also detected in monitoring wells on the east side of the Conestoga River in 1991 and 1992 in Lancaster.
Another site having contamination issues is the Intersil Facility in Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, which RCA operated in the 1960s and later sold to Harris Semiconductor. The shallow and deep groundwater aquifers beneath the facility contain elevated levels of volatile organic compounds ("VOCs").Another former RCA site is located in Burlington, Massachusetts. Between 1958 and 1994, the site was used as an industrial facility, primarily for manufacturing and testing military electronics equipment, generating hazardous waste. Contaminants of concern include VOCs, TCE, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes. Another RCA facility in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, generated wastes containing chromium, selenium and iron. Four lagoons holding chemical waste drained down into the limestone aquifer.