EPA Halts Work at Chester, WV Demolition Site due to Asbestos Hazards

In September 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had issued two orders to a company conducting demolition at a former pottery-manufacturing facility in Chester, WV because of damage to a soil cap at the site and the potential to disturb asbestos-containing materials.

In early 2008, an 11-acre soil cap to cover more than 117,000 cubic yards of ceramic pottery waste and contaminated soil was installed. In August, the EPA and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) inspectors determined that the demolition could create both environmental and health hazards by disturbing asbestos materials or by damaging the cap.

Exposure to asbestos is known to cause serious diseases such as mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer and asbestosis.

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