Toxic chemicals linger at a long-gone dry cleaning business at 103rd Street and State Line Road in Leawood.
Tri- and Tetracholoroethylenes — banned or being phased out because of their links to Parkinson’s disease and certain cancers — have been in the soil and groundwater there since before 2010, spreading east and south toward the Missouri state line and Indian Creek.
But because a state fund to clean up dry cleaning chemicals is so strapped for money, the Leawood site has been on a wait list for years, and, given a relatively low priority ranking, may remain backlogged for an undetermined amount of time…