[CPEO-BIF] TCE and PFAS cleanup at Chromatex site, West Hazleton, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA plans next cleanup at Valmont Superfund site this year

By KENT JACKSON
Hazleton Standard Speaker (PA)
January 10, 2025 

A new project to remove cancer-causing chemicals from groundwater at a Superfund site beneath a former upholstery plant in Valmont Industrial Park could begin this spring, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.

Work at the former Chromatex plant, 423 Jaycee Drive, West Hazleton, will take three years to finish and cost $32.2 million, EPA said.

Money became available for the cleanup last year through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which allocated $3.5 billion for Superfund sites.

Two cancer-causing chemicals, trichloroethelyne and per-and polyflouralalkyl substances, leaked into the groundwater and soil from Chromatex, a defunct plant where upholstery was coated from 1979 to 1993.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.standardspeaker.com/2025/01/10/epa-plans-next-cleanup-at-valmont-superfund-site-this-year/

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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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