Toxic soil still stuck under old Leawood dry cleaner for 17 years

Toxic soil still stuck under old Leawood dry cleaner for 17 years

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 f…