Macalloy cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Macalloy cleanup set to begin 2-year project to rid 141-acre site of
contaminants 

BY NADINE PARKS 
Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
July 3, 2004
 
Six years after 200 workers were handed pink slips and the Macalloy
Corp. plant closed, engineers are ready to begin a $12 million cleanup
of the 141-acre contaminated site on Shipyard Creek in North Charleston.

Macalloy expects to award the contract for the project before Aug. 1 and
begin work soon after. The U.S. Department of Defense will pay $9.62
million of the cost.

The plant converted ore into ferrochromium, a raw material used to make
stainless steel. The U.S. War Department, today the Department of
Defense, was part-owner of the plant during World War II, and federal
officials said they made enough material there to fight a 40-year war.
They made 10 times the amount of material needed.

Macalloy Corp. and a previous owner, British Oxygen Corp., will split
the remaining costs.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.charleston.net/stories/070304/loc_03macalloy.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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