A community workshop on the Kerr-McGee Superfund Site in Navassa kicked off tonight to continue getting input from residents. Friday evening was the first of the two-day workshop.
It is the latest attempt from the Multistate Trust to discuss the future of the Superfund site.
Read MoreThe process of cleaning up the Kerr-McGee Superfund Site in Navassa has been in the works for years.
Read MoreResidents and others will be able to weigh in on the use of Navassa’s Superfund cleanup site during a weekend community vision workshop Feb. 23-24.
Read MoreThe extent of creosote contamination in the soil and groundwater on and around a former wood treatment plant is of “various levels,” according to a remedial investigation of the site.
Read MoreCommunity members in Navassa gathered to hear about the latest on redevelopment of the Kerr-McGee Superfund Site Saturday at the Community Center.
The Multistate Environmental Response Trust’s Redevelopment Planning Initiative works with community stakeholders on their vision for future use of the site.
Read MoreGov. Deal, alongside Dulany Industries Inc., and Greenfield Environmental Trust, unveiled Thursday the SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex, a mile-long private deepwater frontage along the main Savannah River shipping channel as well as class I rail service on-site and easy access to the Georgia Ports Authority and major interstates like I-95 and I-16.
Read MoreFour years ago, the site of the former ASARCO smelter in East Helena was crowded with buildings. Today, almost all of them are gone.
It’s the most obvious sign of the long-term project to clean up the Superfund site, led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Montana Environmental Trust Group, which took over the site as part of ASARCO’s bankruptcy settlement.
Read MoreIn Soda Springs the issue of contaminated ground water from plant chemicals is not a new issue.
It's a problem that many organizations have been monitoring and working on for at least 20 years. Thursday night there was a public open house where people could hear about the progress on the contamination, and talk to experts and ask questions about it.
Read MoreThis evening, the Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust will hold an informal town hall to update residents about ongoing cleanup efforts in and around the former Kerr-McGee site in Columbus.
The town hall is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Sim Scott Park community center.
Read MoreA meeting will be held today to update neighbors on an environmental investigation and clean-up at an old wood treatment plant in northwest Springfield.
Read MoreFor decades the people who lived around the old Kerr McGee plant in Columbus have been fighting for funds to clean up their neighborhood.
Today, there is real progress. The problem began with Creosote. It has a tar-like smell and is used to keep wood from rotting. At the old plant, it was used on railroad ties, cross switches and timber.
Read MoreIn three months, the Seventh Avenue ditch has transformed from an open, jagged trench filled with snakes, exposed pipes and other dangers to an unassuming grassy space.
Willie Riley, a Seventh Avenue resident who's lived near the ditch since 1995, said he's happy the transformation is complete.
Read MoreA 31-acre strip of Jacksonville riverfront is a tiny step closer to being useable for the first time in decades.
But it will stay fenced and plastered with warning signs for at least another year before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can start construction to clean up pollution that scientists once said could make people sick within weeks if they lived there.
Read MoreWork on the Seventh Avenue ditch environmental remediation project is moving at a quicker pace than expected.
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