Arsenic Information for CMC Heartland Lite Yard
Courtesy of the EPA
The residential soil contamination was discovered during an investigation of residential soils that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) undertook in residential yards located downwind of the CMC Heartland Lite Yard property. The CMC Heartland Lite Yard property was leased and operated by Reade Manufacturing, who produced arsenic and/or lead arsenate-based grasshopper pesticide from 1938 through 1963. From 1963 through 1968, U.S. Borax sub-leased the parcel and stored and shipped product during that time. Arsenic was detected in soil at the CMC Heartland Lite Yard site at concentrations up to 3,000 times greater than background levels. The CMC Heartland Lite Yard site was previously addressed by the MDH Voluntary Cleanup Program. The patterns established in the residential soil sampling suggest that windblown deposition from the CMC Heartland Lite Yard Property may be responsible for the elevated levels of arsenic in the surrounding neighborhood.
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