Mississippi Superfund Site: Picayune Wood Treating Site
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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Magnolia State? The US EPA has designated Picayune Wood Treating Site in Mississippi as a Superfund site due to its levels of toxic pollution and harm 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 Mississippi may place you and the people you love at higher risk of getting sick from proximity to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but there are steps you can take 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.

Below you can read the EPA report for the Picayune Wood Treating Site Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has gotten sick due to exposure to a Superfund site Picayune Wood Treating Site, or if your property has lost value because of contamination, you will need a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Mississippi . Take your first step filling out this simple form. There is no obligation, and your case will be evaluated within 24 hours. To refer a friend, neighbor, or loved one, click here to let them know about the environmental toxic tort lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg.

Picayune Wood Treating Site

This site is not a Federal Facility.

Site Background:
The Picayune Wood Treating Site is located at 403 Davis Street on a 29-acre parcel of land in Picayune, Pearl River County, Mississippi. Timber and lumber related operations began in th erly 1900's, but the wood treating operation most likely began around 1946. The Crosby Products Company pressure-treated yellow southern pine wood with preservative chemicals (creosote). In 1973, Wood Treating, Inc. purchased the facility and continued to pressure-treat wood until 1999. Residential, commercial, and industrial areas presently surround the Site.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regulated the Wood Treating, Inc. facility under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) from 1981 to 1999. Several enforcement actions were issued to the facility during that time period. A plan to treat groundwater was implemented in 1996 and continued until 1999.

Cleanup Progress: Remediation Complete:
Wood Treating Inc., which operated a wood treating facility on the site, ceased operations in 1999.  EPA started a Removal Action in October 1999, under the authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), treating approximately 400,000 gallons of wastewater and removing mercury and asbestos from the Site.  Twenty tanks and tanker cars were demolished and approximately 309 tons of scarp metal were also removed from the Site.  In addition, 1,500 cubic yards of creosote sludge were solidified and stockpiled.  EPA completed the Removal Action in February 2001.

In September 2002, EPA began a Remedial Investigation (RI) to determine the nature and extent of the contamination at the Site and in an associated groundwater plume.  The Agency began sampling the groundwater in existing monitoring wells in January 2003.  Soil and sediment samples were collected in February and May of 2004 on the property and in Mill Creek.  Additional monitoring wells were installed in August and September 2004 and more groundwater samples were collected.  EPA continued to collecting soil, sediment, and groundwater samples through June 2005 to determine the extent of the contamination.  A draft RI report was completed in July 2005.  The EPA is hiring a new contractor to complete the RI and prepare a Feasibility Study (FS).  The FS should be completed by May 2006. 

Dioxins in soils were discovered in the residential areas adjacent to Mill Creek.  A removal action is planned for the residential area in late 2005.

source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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see also:

Davis Timber Company Environmental Pollution in Mississippi- Site: Davis Timber Company
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