[CPEO-BIF] Macalloy, North Charleston, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Macalloy's once-contaminated site gets clearance for development

BY PETER HULL
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
November 19, 2006

A large waterfront property with a notorious environmental past has a 
new lease on life, having completed the geological equivalent of rehab.

Until last month, the Macalloy Corp. site still technically was 
considered one of the most polluted industrial sites in the nation. But 
the Environmental Protection Agency now says the tract is ready for 
business again after a two-year, $9.5 million cleanup.

Under pressure from environmental regulators, Macalloy closed its North 
Charleston metals plant about eight years ago, a move that eliminated 
about 200 local manufacturing jobs. At that time, neon-colored polluted 
water was seeping into the creek and radiation contaminated the soil 
under the now-demolished factory.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=business&tableId=119052&pubDate=11/19/2006

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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