[CPEO-BIF] United Heckathorn Superfund Site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup of toxic Richmond waterway creates divisionsSuperfund site spans 5 land acres and 15 acres of marine sediments in Richmond Harbor

By SIERRA LOPEZ 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
August 5, 2025 

RICHMOND — Renewed efforts to clear toxic pesticides from a Richmond waterway are creating divisions between local environmental groups and the Environmental Protection Agency, which previously attempted to clean the site in the 1990s.

The United Heckathorn Superfund Site spans 5 acres of land and 15 acres of marine sediments in Richmond Harbor’s Lauritzen Channel and Parr Canal. It was contaminated between 1947 and 1966 when multiple companies made, packaged and shipped pesticides in the area.

After being designated as a polluted area in need of decontamination in 1990, the EPA spent the decade removing 111,300 cubic yards of contaminated soil and placing a concrete and asphalt cap over the former Heckathorn plant site.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/05/cleanup-of-toxic-richmond-waterway-creates-divisions

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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