Corporate Responsibility
Remediation
Motorola Solutions is involved in environmental remediation at several current and former manufacturing locations, and former waste disposal facilities. These sites were impacted by past activities that were common and accepted practices at the time.
At the end of 2011, we had $70 million reserved to cover environmental liabilities. We share environmental liabilities and remediation expenses with other companies and organizations.
North Indian Bend Wash Superfund Site
The largest remediation effort with which we are involved is at the North Indian Bend Wash (NIBW) Site, an eight square mile area in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., where portions of the underlying groundwater contain volatile organic chemicals.
Motorola, Inc. has operated in the Phoenix area for more than 50 years. We are involved in environmental cleanup at the former site of the Government Electronics Group located at Hayden and McDowell Roads in Scottsdale. In 1983, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated this area as the North Indian Bend Wash Superfund Site following detection of trichloroethylene (TCE) in two public water supply wells. Motorola Solutions, Siemens and GlaxoSmithKline (known as the NIBW Participating companies) are the principal companies responsible for the NIBW cleanup.
By the end of 2011, we had spent more than $125 million on environmental cleanup activities in the Phoenix area. By the end of 2011, over 88 billion gallons of water had been pumped and treated at the NIBW site since the cleanup began.
In 2011. the EPA performed the first five-year review of the site, and concluded that the remedy is protective of human health and the environment, that the remedy is functioning as intended, and that remedial actions are contributing to restoring groundwate for beneficial use.
In July 2009, we began purchasing renewable energy to power remediation efforts at NIBW sites. All the electricity used at the Central Groundwater Treatment Facility comes from wind farms and 100 percent of the electricity used at the Area 7 Groundwater Extraction and Treatment System (GWETS) comes from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas and biomass energy generation. Between July 2009 and July 2010 we purchased about 1,738,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy for NIBW sites.
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On Jan. 4, 2011, Motorola separated into two publicly traded companies, Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility. All data on this page, unless stated otherwise, relate to the former company Motorola, Inc.
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