Hazardous Waste Dump Seen as Superfund Site
Times Wire Reports
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed listing the 252-acre Casmalia Resources hazardous waste dump as a federal Superfund site. Cleanup could cost $272 million.
The dump accepted about 5.5 billion pounds of acids, cyanide, pesticides, manufacturing solvents, oil waste, heavy metals and PCBs between 1972 and 1989.
Waste has been leaking for more than a decade, and the ground water beneath the dump contains high concentrations of acetone, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals and petroleum byproducts.