[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Allied Industrial Park, Bibb County, GA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA wants to add Bibb industrial park site to Superfund list

BY S. HEATHER DUNCAN
Macon Telegraph (GA)
March 7, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to recommend adding  
Allied Industrial Park in Bibb County to the federal National  
Priorities List, commonly known as the “Superfund” list of the  
country’s most contaminated properties.

...

The Department of Defense manufactured ordnance on 433 acres between  
Guy Paine Road and Rocky Creek from 1941 to 1965. A private company  
continued to manufacture ordnance there until Allied Chemical Co.  
purchased the land and manufactured seat belts at the facility during  
the 1970s. The land was subsequently turned into an industrial park  
by the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority.

...

Wendel said the Allied site has long been known to qualify for the  
Superfund program. It wasn’t added before because the state of  
Georgia was trying to work out cleanup with the U.S. Army Corps of  
Engineers, which is responsible for removing contamination from  
Formerly Used Defense Sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/2012/03/07/1935039/epa-wants-to-add-industrial- 
park.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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