[CPEO-BIF] Superfund Cleanup Begins at Hidden Lane Landfill, Loudoun, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund Cleanup Begins at Hidden Lane Landfill

By Tim Farmer
Loudoun Now (VA)
March 28, 2024

Sixteen years after Hidden Lane Landfill was named a federal Superfund site, the Environmental Protection Agency is beginning work to remove contaminated soil and address tainted groundwater at the former dump that sits between Broad Run Farms and CountrySide in eastern Loudoun.

The roughly 30-acre private landfill operated without a county permit from 1971 until it was forced to close under a 1983 court order. The unregulated dump accepted the suburban detritus from the rapidly developing region, including construction and land-clearing waste, but after its closure county officials acknowledged they could not be certain what had been buried at the uncontrolled site.

In 1989, two residential wells in nearby Broad Run Farms tested positive for trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical degreaser used to clean metal parts. Long-term exposure to TCE can damage the kidneys and liver, impair the immune system and cause birth defects. 


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For the entire article, see
https://www.loudounnow.com/news/superfund-cleanup-begins-at-hidden-lane-landfill/article_a170ebc6-ec81-11ee-aff3-c3a9605d8231.html

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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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