[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Former Naval Ordnance Landfill, Macon, GA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Armstrong may go on Superfund list

BY S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph
October 21, 2010

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding a 
prominent Bibb County industrial property to the list of the most 
polluted hazardous waste sites in the nation.

Under the proposal, which is open for a 60-day comment period, the EPA 
would add the Armstrong World Industries site to the National Priority 
List, also called the Superfund list. The site consists of two 
landfills, as well as the drainage pathways between the landfills and 
Rocky Creek, said Jennifer Wendel, who coordinates the National 
Priorities List for the EPA's Southeast region.

If no negative comments are received, Armstrong will likely be finalized 
as a Superfund site in March, Wendel said. It would become just the 
third in Middle Georgia, joining Robins Air Force Base and the former 
Woolfolk Chemical site in Fort Valley.

Armstrong began manufacturing ceiling tiles at its plant on Broadway in 
1948. The two pollution sources are a former Armstrong landfill for 
sludge from its old wastewater treatment plant, as well as a second 
landfill that was essentially shared by Armstrong and a World War II-era 
naval ordnance plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2010/10/21/1310510/armstrong-may-go-on-superfund.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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