[CPEO-BIF] Centredale Manor Superfund Site, North Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

One of New England’s Most Toxic Superfund Sites Moves Closer to Full Remediation

By ROB SMITH
ecoRI News (RI)
October 20, 2021


NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. — From the outside, Centredale Manor resembles most other assisted-living facilities. It has 123 bedrooms, and houses elderly and low-income residents. It rests comfortably on the eastern banks of the Woonasquatucket River, not far from the mom-and-pop shops in the village of Centredale. Town Hall and Route 44 are a stone’s throw away.

The Smith Street facility is also a Superfund site, built on top of or near some of the state’s most toxic dirt. A legacy of Rhode Island’s manufacturing era, the Centredale Manor site was once a dumping ground for untold amounts of hazardous chemicals and other waste. Three-plus decades of industrial polluting from chemical production and drum reconditioning created one of the most toxic Superfund sites in New England.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ecori.org/public-safety/2021/10/19/one-of-new-englands-most-toxic-superfund-sites-moves-closer-to-full-remediation

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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