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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA discusses contamination of Allied Industrial Park at meeting


By MIKE STUCKA
Macon Telegraph (GA)
March 9, 2012

Jacquelyn Murray has lived and worked around Allied Industrial Park  
for three decades. Thursday, she learned just how contaminated the  
area is.

"My kids and I played in those areas where the contamination is,"  
Murray said.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one soil  
sample, around the corner of a building from a ball field, showed  
concentrations of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, known as  
PCBs.

Murray used to consider herself fortunate when someone gave her a  
fish that had been caught in nearby Rocky Creek. Those fish also have  
PCBs, she learned in a meeting Thursday night, when the EPA discussed  
its proposal to put the 433-acre Allied Industrial Park onto its  
Superfund list of the country’s most contaminated properties, which  
is also known as the National Priorities List.

...

For the entire new article, see
http://www.macon.com/2012/03/09/1938178/epa-discusses-contamination- 
of.html#1_undefined,0_


> > From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
> > Date: March 8, 2012 8:45:30 AM PST
> > To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>
> > Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Allied Industrial Park, Bibb  
> > County, GA
> >
> > 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
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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
> <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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