Excerpt from the Brunswick Beacon, April 17, 2019. Read the full article here.
NAVASSA — More soil testing at Navassa’s Kerr-McGee Superfund site is planned for 2018, but officials said cleanup could begin by the start of 2019.
Representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), and the Multistate Environmental Response Trust (Multistate Trust), three groups heading up the cleanup process, hosted a quarterly update meeting April 10 at Navassa Community Center.
Since the project began in August 2015, more than 500 soil, groundwater, well and sediment samples have been taken around the 250-acre site east of Navassa, which is bordered on the west side by Navassa Road, by Sturgeon Creek to the south and the Brunswick River to the east.
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Richard Elliott, the project manager for the Multistate Trust, said most of the creosote measured in the samples was found along the western edge of the property and the southwest corner where the wood treatment plant processing and storage areas, evaporation and wastewater ponds, and two drainage swales that ran from the plant toward the Brunswick River were located.
Wooden poles that were treated in the processing area were then set along the western border of the property to dry and then be transported.