The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to review the cleanup work at seven National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund sites in New England this year. The sites, located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, will undergo a legally-required five-year review to ensure that previous remediation efforts continue to protect public health and the environment.
EPA New England Acting Regional Administrator Deborah Szaro said: “Five-Year Reviews are designed to ensure that cleanup remedies continue to protect human health and the environment over time. These reviews also identify if changing circumstances or scientific understanding might require EPA to take additional actions at the site. By doing this work EPA provides assurance to community that health protection measures are adequate and working.”
The Superfund program investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and works to facilitate activities to return them to productive use. The EPA oversees Superfund studies and cleanups at 123 NPL sites across the six New England states.
The Superfund sites where EPA will complete the reviews are Durham Meadows, Durham, Conn., Callahan Mine, Brooksville, Maine, Eastern Surplus, Meddybemps, Maine, AMTL (Materials Technology Lab), Watertown, Mass., Fort Devens – Sudbury Training Annex, Sudbury, Mass., Coakley Landfill, N. Hampton, N.H. and Savage Municipal Water Supply, Milford, N.H.
