End in Sight for Superfund Cleanup

                   
redorbit.com     Jul 25, 2008            

Posted on: Friday, 25 July 2008, 15:00 CDT By Rebecca Correa, The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass. Jul. 25--KINGSTON -- The final stage of the 15-year cleanup of a Superfund site has begun. On Tuesday, about a dozen members from the state Department of Environmental Services began to work at the Ottati and Goss/Great Lakes Container Corporation Superfund site. Workers are injecting chemicals into groundwater on Route 125. The chemicals will help break down remaining contaminants that came from pollution caused by several former companies, according to project manager Jim Brown of DES. Those companies used the 58 acres of land to clean out more than 4,400 steel drums up until the late 1970s. The chemicals inside the drums were dumped on the ground, leading to polluted run-off in South Brook and Country Pond. Brown said the... [read full story]                    

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Tackling Toxic Messes

redorbit.com     Jul 24, 2008          

Posted on: Thursday, 24 July 2008, 09:00 CDT How was Superfund created? The chemicals found at Superfund sites range from familiar contaminants such as arsenic, lead, mercury and DDT to less familiar chemicals such as toluene,...                    

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End in sight for Superfund cleanup

eagletribune.com     Jul 25, 2008          

KINGSTON — The final stage of the 15-year cleanup of a Superfund site has begun. On Tuesday, about a dozen members from the state Department of Environmental Services began to work at the Ottati and Goss/Great Lakes Container...                    

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