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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Lawyer in The Buckeye State? The U.S. E.P.A. has designated Fultz Landfill in Ohio as a Superfund site due to its levels of environmental toxins 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 Ohio may place you and your loved ones at higher risk of developing a disease from exposure to the site and experiencing a loss of value for your property, but you can do something to 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 are still very dangerous to the health of those near-by.
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Below you can read the EPA report for the Fultz Landfill Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to exposure to a Superfund site Fultz Landfill, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you are better off with a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Ohio . 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.
Fultz Landfill
This site is not a Federal Facility.
Site Responsibility:
This site is being addressed through federal, state and potentially responsible parties' actions.
NPL Listing History:
Proposed Date: 12/30/82
Final Date: 09/08/83
Threats and Contaminants
Records show that rollwash sludge, triblend, flammable waste paint and sludge (liquid and solid) containing hazardous metals, cyanide, chlorinated and non-chlorinated organic solvents, and phthalates were disposed of at the Fultz Landfill. In 1991, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) completed remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) which showed unacceptable metal contamination in the shallow aquifer groundwater, e.g. arsenic, barium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, and vanadium. Vinyl chloride and 1,2-dichloroethene contamination were found in the coal mine aquifer.Cleanup Progress
A Record of Decision (ROD) was issued on September 30, 1991 that specified the remedy for the site. This included: construction of a 24-inch clay landfill cap; installation of subsurface structural supports for the mine voids; collection, treatment onsite, and discharge of contaminated leachate and groundwater; fencing the site; and institutional controls to reduce exposure to site contaminants. After the cleanup was designed, an Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD) was issued that deleted the requirements for onsite water treatment and structural support for the mine voids. Initial negotiations with potentially responsible parties (PRPs) to design and construct the remedy ended unsuccessfully in 1992. After U.S. EPA completed the design, negotiations were reestablished for construction of the remedy. These negotiations concluded successfully with a Consent Decree (CD) between U.S. EPA and some of the PRPs. The CD was entered in 1997 and required the eight PRPs to construct the remedy. Another CD, with one previously non-settling PRP for $6,000,000 in past costs, was signed by this PRP and U.S. EPA in December 1997 and entered in April 1998. Another CD, in which 11 settling defendants reached a final settlement was entered in March 1999.In August 1997, the PRPs' contractor began construction. Construction has been completed, which was documented in the Preliminary Close Out Report dated September 29, 1998. Long-term monitoring of the site is continuing. The first five-year review report was made in July 2002 and the report stated that the remedy was protective of human health and the environment in the short-term but was not protective at the time in the long-term because the institutional controls had not been implemented; since that time the institutional controls have been implemented.
Remedial Project Manager
Bernard J. Schorle
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
312-886-4746
schorle.bernard@epa.gov
Community Involvement Coordinator
Zenny Sadlon
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(312) 886-6682
sadlon.zenny@epa.gov
Support Agency Coordinator
Kris Vanecko
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
740-380-5271
kris.vanecko@epa.state.oh.us
The Fultz Landfill is a 22-acre privately-owned landfill located one-half mile northeast of the city of Byesville and three miles southeast of the city of Cambridge. From 1954 to 1985, residential, commercial, and industrial solid wastes were disposed of at this site. Beneath the landfill waste, the shallow aquifer consists of alluvial sediment and mine spoils which overlie a flooded coal mine aquifer. the city of Byesville uses the coal mine aquifer as its primary drinking water source. Stream A runs east to west along the north toe (base) of the landfill and discharges into Wills Creek. Wills Creek is a drinking water source for the city of Cambridge. Wetlands consisting of six ponds are also located along Stream A at the toe of the landfill. During the period of operation, county and state officials cited the owner of the landfill for violations of the operating license, including inadequate control of leachate and accepting unauthorized drums of hazardous waste. The state contacted businesses generating the drums and requested them to stop sending drums to the landfill. In the early 1980's leachate seeping from the landfill contained unacceptable levels of metals and phenolic compounds.
In August 1997, the PRPs' contractor began construction. Construction has been completed, which was documented in the Preliminary Close Out Report dated September 29, 1998. Long-term monitoring of the site is continuing. The first five-year review report was made in July 2002 and the report stated that the remedy was protective of human health and the environment in the short-term but was not protective at the time in the long-term because the institutional controls had not been implemented; since that time the institutional controls have been implemented.
Remedial Project Manager
Bernard J. Schorle
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
312-886-4746
schorle.bernard@epa.gov
Community Involvement Coordinator
Zenny Sadlon
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(312) 886-6682
sadlon.zenny@epa.gov
Support Agency Coordinator
Kris Vanecko
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
740-380-5271
kris.vanecko@epa.state.oh.us
source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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