[CPEO-MEF] Jacksonville (AR) Agent Orange cleanup settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Department of Justice
Press Release
May 18, 2007


Hercules Inc. Pays $124 Million for Superfund Cleanup Costs Incurred by 
the U.S. Government

WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. government 
received a $124 million payment today from Hercules Incorporated to 
repay costs the EPA incurred in cleaning up the Vertac Chemical and 
Jacksonville Landfill Superfund Sites in Jacksonville, Ark., the Justice 
Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced.

...

Hercules manufactured millions of pounds of herbicides at the site 
including Agent Orange, a 50/50 mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, which was 
used by the U.S. military as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Nearly 
10 years after dioxin was no longer being made at the site, EPA found 
dioxin contamination and other hazardous wastes throughout the plant 
site, including the soils, groundwater, plant equipment, sediments of 
nearby waterways and the backyards of nearby residential areas. Hercules 
was also found responsible for the costs of cleaning up a municipal 
landfill used by Hercules as a dump site that also contained dioxin.

For the entire press release, see
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-18-2007/0004591838&EDATE=

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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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