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The BoRit Asbestos Superfund site is a 32-acre (13 ha) waste dump and reservoir in Ambler, Upper Dublin Township and Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania that was contaminated with 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of asbestos containing material due to the waste disposal practices of the Keasbey and Mattison (K&M) Company and Turner and Newall from 1897 to 1962.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Pages in category "Superfund sites in Pennsylvania" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... BoRit Asbestos; Brodhead Creek; D. Darby Creek ...
In 2009 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the proposed development as part of a second Superfund site, the BoRit Asbestos Site. [21] The site includes an asbestos waste pile, an 11-acre pond and a former park. [32] The EPA estimated that it would complete the initial cleanup phase at the BoRit site as of 2015. [21]
The site is not associated with the city of Pasco. The landfill property, which is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site, covers about 200 acres and is surrounded by agriculture ...
A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination faces millions of dollars in penalties after a jury found it submitted more than 300 false asbestos claims to the U.S ...
Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. federal Superfund site at 35 South West Boulevard in Newfield Borough, Gloucester County. PHOTO: May 20, 2024
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program.