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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 ...
Despite being one of the smallest states, New Jersey has more Superfund sites than any other state in the country. Here is why. NJ has the most Superfund sites in the country.
Feb. 22—Health board members last week put its focus area liaison position for asbestos issues on ice and formally disbanded its committee dedicated to institutional controls at the Superfund site.
The reservoir parcel of the BoRit Asbestos Superfund Site was remediated and repurposed as the Wissahickon Waterfowl Preserve [30] A 2011 study by the Pennsylvania Department of Health reviewed data from 1992 to 2008, and reported that mesothelioma was diagnosed 3.1 times more often in Ambler residents than in other Pennsylvania residents. The ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted an emergency removal action in 2008 which included capping the asbestos waste pile with a geotextile material and 2 feet of clean material and stream bank stabilization of three creeks. The EPA added the BoRit Asbestos site to the Superfund National Priorities List in April 2009. [12]
The site was placed on the Superfund list in 1999. The shopping center and homes were built on top of the contaminated soil and the waste lagoons, and on at least one occasion creosote sludge ...