superfund News
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EPA Continuing Cleanup Progress at Hazardous Waste Sites
(Washington, D.C.) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continued to make significant progress in cleaning up America's most contaminated hazardous waste sites over the past year. Superfund, the federal government program that cleans up these sites, completed work at 40 sites during fiscal year 2006 for a cumulative total of 1,006 sites with construction work completed. 'EPA continues to ...
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EPA proposes to add Puerto Rico site to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the Corozal Well site in Barrio Palos Blancos, Corozal, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the site, which is in a rural area near the municipalities of Corozal and Naranjito, found that the chemical tetrachloroethylene (or PCE) is contaminating a well ...
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EPA adds Corozal well Site in Corozal, Puerto Rico to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has added the Corozal Well site in Barrio Palos Blancos, Corozal, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the site, which is in a rural area near the municipalities of Corozal and Naranjito, found that the chemical tetrachloroethylene or PCE is ...
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EPA adds mansfield trail dump site in Byram Township, NJ to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added the Mansfield Trail Dump Site in Byram Township, New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling has shown that chemical contamination in a wooded area of the site where waste was dumped in trenches is affecting a number of nearby homes. Chemicals have vaporized from ...
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EPA proposes to add Mansfield trail dump site in Byram Township, NJ to the superfund list (NJ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add the Mansfield Trail Dump Site in Byram Township, New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling has shown that chemical contamination in a wooded area where waste was dumped in trenches is affecting a number of nearby homes. Chemical vapors from contaminated soil ...
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EPA Completes Construction of Water line in Chester and Washington Townships, N.J.
Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today marked the completion of a water line extension that will provide a safe source of drinking water to 73 homes and businesses threatened by contaminated groundwater from the Combe Fill South Landfill Superfund site in Chester and Washington Townships in N.J. As a result, those homes and local businesses will no longer need treatment ...
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EPA Adds Radiation Site in Ridgewood Queens, New York to the Superfund List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company site in the Ridgewood section of Queens, New York to the federal Superfund list of hazardous waste sites. The soil and nearby sewers were contaminated by radioactive material from past industrial activities at the site. Testing indicates that there is no immediate threat to nearby residents, employees or ...
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Core Sampling Phase of Engineering Survey to Begin Week of Jan. 13 at West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo.
Contractors working under the oversight of EPA Region 7 will begin a new core sampling phase of an engineering survey during the week of January 13 at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo. The survey will examine the area between Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill and West Lake Landfill to locate radiologically-impacted material that may be present and identify the location for future ...
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EPA invites public to discuss changes in Muskego Sanitary Landfill cleanup plan
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 will hold open house-style availability sessions Thursday, Sept. 9, to discuss with residents proposed changes to the cleanup plan for the Muskego Sanitary Landfill site. There will be two sessions: 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at the Muskego Public Library, S73 W16663 Janesville Road., Muskego, Wis. EPA is modifying its previous cleanup decisions on this ...
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EPA Begins Construction of Water line in Chester and Washington Townships, N.J.; $7.3 Million Project Will Provide Safe Drinking Water to Residents and Businesses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is constructing a water line extension in Chester and Washington Townships in New Jersey that will provide a safe source of drinking water to 73 homes and businesses potentially impacted by contaminated ground water from the Combe Fill South Landfill Superfund site. The 65-acre Combe Fill South Landfill in Morris County served as a municipal landfill from ...
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EPA proposes site in New Jersey for the superfund list of hazardous waste sites
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add the Curtis Specialty Papers, Inc. site (also known as the James River Paper site) in Milford, Hunterdon County, New Jersey to the EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL) of sites with known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories. The NPL ...
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EPA Reaches Agreement with Two Companies Requiring the Cleanup of Asbestos at a School and Head Start Facility in Penuelas, Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Homeca Recycling Center Co, Inc. and Tallaboa Industrial Park, LLC to clean up asbestos that spread from a building in the Tallaboa Industrial Park during demolition to the nearby Jorge Lucas Perez Valdevieso School and a children’s Head Start facility. The building was being demolished as part of the redevelopment ...
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