The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added sites and proposed sites to add to the National Priorities List on September 7.
The Superfund National Priorities List includes the nation’s most serious uncontrolled or abandoned releases of contamination. The list serves as the basis for prioritizing EPA Superfund clean-up funding and enforcement actions. Three of the five sites added involve groundwater contamination. The two sites proposed to be added both have groundwater contamination.
The following sites were added to the Superfund National Priorities List:
- Lower Hackensack River, Bergen and Hudson Counties, New Jersey
- Brillo Landfill, Victory, New York (groundwater contamination)
- Ochoa Fertilizer Co., Guánica, Puerto Rico
- Georgetown North Groundwater, Georgetown, Delaware (groundwater contamination)
- Highway 3 PCE, Le Mars, Iowa (groundwater contamination).
The EPA is proposing to add the following sites to the Superfund National Priorities List:
- East Basin Road Groundwater, New Castle, Delaware (groundwater contamination)
- PCE Carriage Cleaners, Bellevue, Nebraska (groundwater contamination).
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