[CPEO-BIF] Standard Chlorine of Delaware/Metachem Superfund Site

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Delaware Superfund site gets new federal funding to hasten overdue cleanup

By Jon Hurdle, Tom Byrne
Delaware Public Media
March 8, 2024 

The long-running cleanup of one of Delaware’s worst-polluted Superfund sites got a boost last week when the federal government announced $41.5 million in infrastructure funds to speed the remediation of a contaminated wetland at the Standard Chlorine site near Delaware City.

The new money was part of a final installment of about $1 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021 (BIL) to help the cleanup of about 100 Superfund sites around the country. They include 25 where the money will be used for new construction; among those is the Delaware site.

At Standard Chlorine of Delaware, also known as Metachem after its final owner, the money will be used to excavate contaminated sediment and treat it on site, said David Sternberg, a spokesman for the EPA’s regional office in Philadelphia. The work will also create a layer of organic material, granular activated carbon and microbes to remove remaining contaminants and restore the wetland.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.delawarepublic.org/show/the-green/2024-03-08/delaware-superfund-site-gets-new-federal-funding-to-hasten-overdue-cleanup

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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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