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Do you need a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Sunshine State? The US EPA has designated Pickettville Road Landfill in Florida as a Superfund site due to its levels of environmental toxins and danger to the natural world. You can read the report for the site below.
Some Superfund sites are on the National Priority Site Lists. The National Priorities List ("NPL") is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on the NPL. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.
Sites are listed on the NPL upon completion of Hazard Ranking System (HRS) screening, public solicitation of comments about the proposed site, and after all comments have been addressed. EPA may delete a final NPL site if it determines that no further response is required to protect human health or the environment. Sites where a remediation was completed through the Superfund program are typically deleted from the NPL.
Living near Superfund Sites in Florida may place you and your loved ones at higher risk of getting sick from exposure to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but action is being taken to fight back: The EPA says,
[We have] set up a "Post Construction Completion" (or PCC) strategy to ensure that Superfund response actions provide for the long-term protection of human health and the environment. EPA's Post Construction Completion activities also involve optimizing remedies to increase effectiveness and/or reduce cost without sacrificing long-term protection of human health and the environment.Regardless, most of the Superfund sites continue to pose a threat the health of those near-by.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Pickettville Road Landfill Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to toxic pollution in Pickettville Road Landfill, or if your property has lost value because of contamination, you will need a toxic tort attorney who knows the people of the State of Florida . Learn more about your legal options by filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within one business day. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Pickettville Road Landfill
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Site Background: The Pickettville Road Landfill site located in Duval County, Florida is a 52 acre site which began as a borrow pit for sand in the 1940's. From the 1960's until 1977 the site was backfilled with industrial and municipal waste. In the late 1970's and early 1980's the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and the EPA documented the presence of volatile organic compounds and metals in site soil and groundwater. The site threatens local drinking water sources and two nearby creeks that receive site runoff from the site and discharge from the effected aquifers.
Cleanup Progress: Actual Construction Underway : A final decision for cleanup of the site was reached by EPA in September, 1990. A Consent Decree for the design and implementation of the remedy was reached between EPA and the potentially responsible parties (PRPs) in September, 1992. The remedy consists of the installation of a protective cover system for the landfill, extension of the municipal water supply to nearby residents, restoration of the adjacent Little Sixmile Creek, and implementation of a long-term monitoring program. This remedy was completed in June 1997. Recent groundwater monitoring has revealed elevated contaminant levels along the northern site boundary. An effort is currently under way to evaluate remedial alternatives. A Focused Feasibility Study for additional remedial action to address ground water was approved in March, 2000. A pilot test was conducted during the summer of 2000 to evaluate the effectiveness of zero-valent iron within a permeable wall for degrading the volatile organic compounds in the groundwater. The results of the pilot test (a laboratory procedure to determine if the remedial technology will work) indicates that the Iron Reactive Permeable Barrier will decrease the concentration leaving the site. EPA is preparing a Proposed Plan in which the preferred remedy will be presented for public comment. After considering the public comments a Record of Decision (ROD) will be drafted setting forth the remedy. The remedy design will then be finalized and the remedy implemented.
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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