[CPEO-BIF] Edisto Court neighborhood, Columbia, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Edisto Court neighborhood cleansed of pollution, officials sayNearby  
commercial land to be cleaned up to prevent further contamination

By Sammy Fretwell
The State (SC)
December 21, 2012


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finished cleaning up  
toxic pollution in a Columbia neighborhood that for generations knew  
nothing of the lead and arsenic contamination threatening people’s  
health.

Now, with the public health threat eliminated from neighborhood  
yards, state regulators will oversee the cleanup of nearby commercial  
and industrial property to ensure no more contamination trickles into  
the Edisto Court community, state and city officials said.

After a community meeting Thursday, city councilman Moe Baddourah  
said cleanup at one site closest to the neighborhood will occur in  
the next 90 days. The property is adjacent to the TVK mini-warehouses.

"We are in discussions with the folks at TVK to make sure we get an  
equivalent level of cleanup," said Ken Taylor, an official with the  
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. "We also will be  
working with other commercial properties."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/2012/12/21/2563934/edisto-court-neighborhood- 
cleansed.html

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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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