superfund site News
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Unilateral administrative order issued regarding Mottolo superfund site in Raymond, N.H. (NH)
EPA has signed a Unilateral Administrative Order, requiring Gillingham Road, LLC to refrain from installing any new groundwater wells or pumping any currently installed groundwater wells on property located northwest of the Mottolo Pig Farm Superfund Site in Raymond, N.H. The UAO serves to prevent the release of hazardous substances because the property is located in an area where new groundwater ...
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EPA reaches settlement on groundwater cleanup at the Davis liquid waste superfund site in Smithfield R.I.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with respect to the Davis Liquid Waste Superfund Site in Smithfield, R.I. Pursuant to the settlement, the Settling Defendants will implement the groundwater cleanup at the Site. They also will be financially responsible for 100 percent of future response costs, including oversight costs. The settlement agreement was signed by ...
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EPA adds Gary site to Superfund National priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today added the Gary Development Landfill in Gary, Indiana, to the Superfund National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. Before it closed in 1989, the Gary Development Landfill accepted hazardous waste ...
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One Month Later, New Orleans Nearly Pumped Dry
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 3, 2005 (ENS) - Pumps set up by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been working 24/7 for weeks to remove the flood waters from New Orleans' streets left in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now the job is close to completion. Before Hurricane Rita passed, the pumps had cleared most of the flood water from Hurricane Katrina and only 10 percent ...
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In-Situ Thermal Remediation for Environmental Cleanup at Solvents Recovery Service of New England, Inc. Superfund Site
A key phase of the environmental cleanup at SRSNE is scheduled to start this week. This comes after just over a year of construction at the SRSNE Superfund Site, and 31 years on the National Priorities list. The work to be done incudes In-Situ Thermal Remediation (ISTR) to remove solvents from contaminated soils at the site. ISTR uses electrical heaters in the ground to vaporize the solvents, ...
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