by Brianna Crandall — March 11, 2011—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that risk people’s health and threaten the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, and is proposing to include 15 additional sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.
The following 10 sites have been added to the National Priorities List:
- Dwyer Property Ground Water Plume, Elkton, MD
- Washington County Lead District—Furnace Creek, Caledonia, MO
- ACM Smelter and Refinery, Cascade County, MT
- Mansfield Trail Dump, Byram Township, NJ
- Dewey Loeffel Landfill, Nassau, NY
- Wright Chemical Corporation, Riegelwood, NC
- Milford Contaminated Aquifer, Milford, OH
- Cabo Rojo Ground Water Contamination, Cabo Rojo, PR
- Hormigas Ground Water Plume, Caguas, PR
- West County Road 112 Ground Water, Midland, TX
- Washington County Lead District—Furnace Creek, Caledonia, MO
There are currently a total of 1,356 final and proposed sites on the NPL. With all Superfund sites, EPA tries to identify and locate the parties potentially responsible for the contamination. Therefore, it may be several years before cleanup is begun for some sites.
More information on the NPL program and the 10 final sites, as well as the list of 15 proposed sites, is available on EPA’s NPL Web site.
