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  2. Superfund - Wikipedia

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    The initial Superfund trust fund to clean up sites where a polluter could not be identified, could not or would not pay (bankruptcy or refusal), consisted of about $1.6 billion [15] and then increased to $8.5 billion. [4] Initially, the framework for implementing the program came from the oil and hazardous substances National Contingency Plan.

  3. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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    A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...

  4. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in California 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 ...

  5. Shpack Landfill - Wikipedia

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    The site cleanup is directed by the federal Superfund program. [2] The Superfund site covers 9.4 acres, mostly within Norton, with 3.4 acres in the adjoining city of Attleboro. The Norton site was operated as a landfill dump accepting domestic and industrial wastes, including low-level radioactive waste, between 1946 and 1965.

  6. Newmark Ground Water Contamination - Wikipedia

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    The Newmark Groundwater Contamination Site is a Superfund site located at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California.The contamination was discovered in 1980 and resulted in the closing of 20 water supply wells and intensive cleanup efforts in the following years. [1]

  7. Chemicals at $75M Superfund cleanup site leak into Tri-Cities ...

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    The landfill property, which is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site, covers about 200 acres and is surrounded by agriculture and commercial businesses.

  8. Havertown Superfund - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ranked the site the eighth worst cleanup project in the United States. [2] The site was added to the National Priorities List in 1983 and designated as a Superfund cleanup site in the early 1990s. Remediation and monitoring efforts are ongoing and the EPA transferred control of the site to the ...

  9. Freeway Sanitary Landfill - Wikipedia

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    The Freeway Sanitary Landfill is a United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site that covers 140 acres (57 ha) in Burnsville, Minnesota.In 1971 the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MCPA) licensed the landfill to accept 1,920 acre-feet (2,370,000 m 3) of household, commercial, demolition, and nonhazardous industrial wastes.