[Brownfields-CPEO] $93.4 million plan to remove dangerous chemicals from Richmond’s Heckathorn Superfund site, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA announces $93.4M plan to rid California Superfund site of dangerous chemicals

BY  KARI HULAC
RICHMONDSIDE (CA)
September 22, 2026

The EPA has released a 53-page, $93.4 million plan to remove dangerous chemicals from Richmond’s Heckathorn Superfund site, but community members who’ve long advocated for a more extensive cleanup aren’t impressed.

While there may be some aspects of the EPA’s United Heckathorn Superfund Site planthat the Richmond Shoreline Alliance (RSA) might agree with, said coordinator Janet Johnson, they don’t consider it a complete cleanup. The RSA and its partner agencies became so frustrated with the EPA last year that they wrote their own cleanup plan, one that has been endorsed by the city of Richmond and Sen. Jesse Arreguín.
The EPA never acknowledged their proposal, Johnson said.

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For the entire article, see
https://apnews.com/article/richmond-heckathorn-superfund-site-ddt-epa-cleanup-3c6f537236f64e6a635f734c68753689

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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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