Extent of Navassas Mess Clearer; What Next? 03/17/2017 by Trista Talton

NAVASSA – As the investigation continues into how deep and widespread creosote has traveled through Navassa’s soil and groundwater, town leaders and residents must hatch plans to re-use the land where the wood-treating chemical was used and disposed of for years.

Homesites Purchased

NAVASSA — The Multistate Environmental Response Trust recently announced that it had acquired two residential properties that were bounded on all sides by the former Kerr-McGee Superfund site.

The trust purchased the properties because their location posed logistical and engineering challenges for site cleanup. The properties were not affected by site contamination, according to the trust.

The Environmental Protection and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality both approved the trust’s use of cleanup funds for the purchases. Cleanup funds were provided by the companies responsible for the site contamination.

The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is drilling additional monitoring wells throughout the town to determine where and how much contamination is in the ground from the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. wood treatment facility.

During a public meeting hosted at the town’s community center Tuesday night, EPA, Multistate Environmental Response Trust and North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality officials updated residents on the latest results of soil and water tested for concentrations of the toxic sludge.

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http://www.coastalreview.org/2017/03/extent-of-navassas-mess-clearer-what-next/