Funded Clean-Up Sites Announced

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced specific Superfund sites toward which $600 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) will be directed.

The hazardous waste Superfund sites that have been selected are located in each of the EPA’s 10 regions. In most cases, recovery act funding is intended to accelerate cleanup activities already underway at the sites, although in some cases it will fund new clean-up projects at sites.

The projects often involve soil remediation and sometimes demolition work.

Among the sites listed by the EPA in a mid-April news release are:

Region 1 (New England)

• New Bedford Harbor – New Bedford, Mass.
• Hatheway & Patterson – Mansfield/Foxborough, Mass.
• Silresim Chemical – Lowell, Mass.
• Ottati & Goss – Kingston, N.H.
• Elizabeth Mine – Stafford, Vt.

Region 2 (New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)

• Old Roosevelt Field – Garden City, N.Y.
• Lawrence Aviation – Port Jefferson, N.Y.
• Welsbach – Camden & Gloucester County, N.J.
• Vineland Chemical – Vineland, N.J.
• Roebling Steel – Florence, N.J.
• Horseshoe Road – Sayreville, N.J.
• Cornell Dubilier – South Plainfield, N.J.
• Imperial Oil – Morganville, N.J.
• Price Landfill – Pleasantville & Egg Harbor, N.J.
• Emmell’s Landfill – Galloway, N.J.

Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic Region)

Standard Chlorine – New Castle, Del.

Atlantic Wood Industries – Portsmouth, Va.

Havertown – Havertown, Pa.

Crossley Farm – Huff’s Church, Pa.

Region 4 (Southeast)

Escambia Wood – Pensacola, Fla.

United Metals – Marianna, Fla.

Tower Chemical – Clermont, Fla.

Woolfolk – Fort Valley, Ga.

Brunswick Wood – Brunswick, Ga.

Sigmons Septic – Statesville, N.C.

GMH – Roxboro, N.C.

Region 5 (Great Lakes Region)

Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination Soil – Evansville, Ind.

South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination – Minneapolis, Minn.

Continental Steel – Kokomo, Ind.

Outboard Marine Corporation – Waukegan, Ill.

Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

Tar Creek – Ottawa Co., Okla.

Garland Creosoting – Longview, Texas

Grants Chlorinated – Grants, N.M.

Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska)

Cherokee County – Galena, Kan.

Madison County – Fredericktown, Mo.

Omaha Lead – Omaha, Neb.

Oronogo-Duenweg – Joplin, Mo.

Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, the Dakotas, Utah, Wyoming)

Arsenic Trioxide – Southeast, N.D.

Clear Creek – Central City, Colo.

Eureka Mills – Eureka, Utah

Gilt Edge – Near Lead, S.D.

Upper Ten Mile – Near Helena, Mont.

Bountiful W/C – Bountiful, Utah

Summitville Mine – Del Norte, Colo.

Region 9 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada)

Iron Mountain Mine – Redding, Calif.

Frontier Fertilizer – Davis, Calif.

Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine – Clear Oaks, Calif.

Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)

BH Mining; Basin Property Remediation Program – Kellogg, Idaho

Commencement Bay – Tacoma, Wash.

Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor – Bainbridge Island, Wash.

The federal Superfund program was created in 1980 and designed to enable the cleanup of hazardous waste deemed to pose unacceptable risks to human health and the environment.

More information on the specific Superfund projects selected can be found at http://www.epa.gov/recovery/.