[CPEO-BIF] Victor Mill, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mill cleanup deal sought

Spartanburg County's goal: Endorse Victor Mill agreement March 16

By Nan Lundeen
GREATER GREER NEWS (SC)
March 10, 2009

After many years of waiting for the rubble-strewn, rat-infested, 
carcinogen-contaminated Victor Mill to be cleaned up in the midst of 
their neighborhood, residents could see pen and ink put to paper on a 
cleanup agreement March 16.

Spartanburg County Assistant Administrator Chris Story said the County 
Council may be able to endorse a proposed agreement between the county 
and ReGenesis Inc., the Spartanburg-based nonprofit that would oversee 
mitigation, at its next meeting that begins 5:30 p.m. March 16.

When could cleanup begin?

"We will hurry, but we will do so cautiously," Story said.

The site is contaminated with -- among other pollutants -- PAHs or 
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the most toxic of the carcinogenic 
PAHs found there being benzo(a)pyrene, according to an assessment done 
for the federal Environmental Protection Agency.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090310/GGN/903100305/1069/YOURUPSTATE01

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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