Press Release Back Number(2005)

Results of soil survey on land owned by Chubu Electric Power

November 10, 2005
Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Quantities of lead and compounds thereof exceeding environmental standards have been discovered on the former site of the Yada-Minami warehouse (Yada-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya), owned by Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.


This site had been leased to Chubu Seiki Co., Ltd. (President: Masakatsu Horikoshi; headquarters: Kasugai-shi, Aichi Prefecture), a member of the Chubu Electric Power group of companies. From 1951 through 2004, Chubu Seiki used the site as a warehouse for power meters, a repair facility, and an office.


The presence of quantities of lead and compounds thereof exceeding environmental standards was discovered in a soil survey pursuant to a Nagoya city environmental health and safety ordinance (Ordinance 15, dated March 25, 2003), conducted in connection with Chubu Electric Power's demolition of the structures on the property.


Chubu Electric Power will proceed with a boring survey to ascertain the contamination status of the site and will then take appropriate measures, including the removal of contaminants as instructed by the city of Nagoya.


1. Overview of this site:

Address: 101-1, 103, and 106 1-chome, Yada-Minami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya
Surface area: 2,445.93 square meters


2. Contamination status

Quantities of lead and compounds thereof exceeding environmental standards were discovered as a result of a soil content survey conducted by Chubu Electric Power concerning contaminants contained in the soil on this site.

At the same time, Chubu Electric Power also conducted a soil dissolution survey concerning dissolution of contaminants into the soil on this site. In this survey, no contaminants were discovered in levels exceeding environmental standards.

Survey results

Soil content survey
Contaminants exceeding environmental standards Lead and compounds thereof
Density range exceeding environmental standards 160 - 480 mg/kg
Soil contamination processing standards 150 mg/kg or less
Ratio vs. standards 1.1 - 3.2 times
Number of times standards were
exceeded/number of surveys		 4/24