[CPEO-BIF] Metachem Products, Delaware City, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA proposes capping part of Metachem site

Lower-cost option would permanently cover contaminated soil

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
July 22, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended a $12 million to $19 
million pave-over for the worst-contaminated section of the abandoned 
Metachem Products chemical plant near Delaware City.

More comprehensive cleanup schemes under consideration for the 22.8-acre 
plant area carried price tags of up to $100 million, according to a 
document recently released for public comment.

The agency's preferred, lower-cost option -- scheduled for a public 
hearing July 28 -- would permanently cover untreated soils deeply soaked 
with toxic chemicals. Contractors already have sunk walls deep into the 
ground on three sides of the area, as part of a series of containment 
and cleanup projects that already have cost taxpayers about $70 million.

Other major expenses are pending for more than 40 nearby acres tainted 
with chlorinated benzene compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 
other contaminants.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090722/NEWS02/907220323

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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