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An interactive map at the link. Quite nasty pieces of real estate, we should know where these are. If there's one in your backyard, check appropriately about your water.
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I managed the California state program in the first years when we were putting sites on the list. Turns out they're harder to get off the list. States often were lead regulators with EPA hanging in the wings but when real government cash was needed, most sites went to EPA with the states watching after their own interests.
Then there were the guys in moon suits who cleaned up the wastes, and guys in pin-stripe suits who just cleaned up. Fun times.
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"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
Often it is encapsulated and contained by various means, and left in place. Lots of engineering in play. Areas with lightweight aromatics can be cordoned off and allowed to evaporate. Sometimes soil can be burned to remove chems. Radioactive wastes are usually stabilized by some means and removed to safe storage facilities
And sometimes these wastes are so bad that the area will never be safe; off-site migration is contained, and the area is forever off limits for any subsequent use.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Its a nickname for our CERCLA, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.
Used to apply toward cleanup of haztox sites, under jurisdiction of our EPA. Part of the project effort is to identify the polluters and reclaim the costs by referring the matter to the Dept of Justice. This typically is the course of action for some of our larger messes. The trust funds allow people to start work on a site before obtaining money from the culprits through the court system. That can take a decade or more.
But I thought there would be more in Louisiana I figured the whole state would be a Superfund site.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
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"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
Rocky Flats, the red dot NW of Denver / Arvada on your map when zoomed in. Fortunately, I'm several dozen miles to the SE of this facility that was used to make plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons for decades. Investigated by the EPA and FBI, they were raided in 1989 on reports of unsafe conditions."Most of the radioactive contamination from Rocky Flats came from three sources: a catastrophic fire in 1957,[6] leaking barrels in an outdoor storage area in 1964-1968, and another less severe fire in 1969.[18] Plutonium, used to construct the weapons' fissile components, can spontaneously combust at room temperatures in air....."
Edits: 11/24/15
Surrounding the central Operating Core of the plant, which may never be de-listed. The RF facility is probably the best definition of clusterfuck that we have on the books. A criminal operation going on for years in an area where no one wanted to look. A billion+ dollar fine against Rockwell, awarded by a jury, was thrown out in an appellate court due to legal mishandlings. They skated. Thank you Bush/Cheney.
The Refuge is safe for people and animals as long as you don't go digging for badgers or prairie dogs. Its only "clean" for the top 3 feet. Below that, you won't need a flashlight.
I live near a bunch- some worse than others - and I know some of the Environmental scientist working on a few - talk about job security-
Happy Listening
Let them know you appreciate the tedious work they are into. Haztox cleanup is painfully slow, but thorough. People I worked with were very conscientious.
I'm within about 4-5 miles of a site rated 69+. A barrel factory in Beavercreek. I was within the same distance from the site as an 11 year old kid, standing in a cornfield watching burning barrels shoot into the sky as the place burned.
The Monsanto Mound nuclear site is about 15 miles away and actually has a lower rating.
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Freak out...Far out...In out....
Nothing particularly close to either Brookline, MA or Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach, FL.
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