Wyoming Superfund Site: Mystery Bridge Rd/U.S. Highway 20
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Are you in need of a Toxic Tort Attorney in Big Wyoming? The E.P.A. has designated Mystery Bridge Rd/U.S. Highway 20 in Wyoming as a Superfund site because of its amounts of enviromental contamination 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 Wyoming may place you and your family more vulnerable to getting sick from proximity 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.

Below you can read the EPA report for the Mystery Bridge Rd/U.S. Highway 20 Superfund site. If you, a loved one, or someone in your community has suffered due to toxic pollution in Mystery Bridge Rd/U.S. Highway 20, or if your property has lost value because of pollution, you will need a toxic tort lawyer who knows the people of the State of Wyoming . You can begin the process of filing a claim 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.

Mystery Bridge Rd/U.S. Highway 20

This site is not a Federal Facility.

Mystery Bridge

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The Mystery Bridge Rd/Highway 20 site, also known as Brookhurst, is located in the Brookhurst and Mystery Bridge subdivisions, in Natrona County, one mile east of Evansville, Wyoming. Ground water contaminated by an oil field service area threatened some private drinking-water wells in Evansville. Operators of the two areas of the Superfund site have cleaned up soil and ground-water contamination as part of an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Wyoming.

One area of the site, the Kinder Morgan (formerly KN Energy) facility, is a natural-gas processing facility. An unlined waste pond on this area of the site was used from 1965 until 1984. The other area of the site, operated by Dow Chemical Company and Dowell Schlumberger, Inc.(DOW/DSI), was an oil field service area. At one time this area contained a toluene (a volatile organic compound) storage area, a truck wash drain and an abandoned sump.

Studies, begun in 1986 in response to citizen complaints, found volatile halogenated organics (VHOs) in area drinking-water wells. Many homes were affected in the Brookhurst Subdivision, which was developed in the mid-1970s. EPA responses included connecting residents to the Evansville municipal drinking-water system.

Two separate ground-water plumes were identified. One, originating from the Kinder Morgan property, contained benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylene (BETX). The other ground-water problem originated from the DOW/DSI property and extended underneath part of the subdivision. It contained VHOs.

A Record of Decision (ROD) signed in 1990 outlined the way the site would be cleaned up. In addition to the ROD, several Administrative Orders under the EPA removal program addressed the cleanup of soil and ground-water contamination associated with the Kinder Morgan and DOW/DSI site.

To address the soil contamination located on site, Kinder Morgan completed soil removals and construction of a soil-vapor extraction system. The latter was operated in conjunction with air-sparging (a system that injects air into contaminated water).

Kinder Morgan also pumped and treated ground water to clean up the BETX contamination. The system included extraction wells, an air-stripper treatment unit, and ground-water reinjection for the treated ground water. Kinder Morgan recently discontinued this operation and is monitoring the ground water.

In mid-1997, Kinder Morgan completed analysis of the ground-water data, which showed that the water had met the specified cleanup levels. EPA approved the completion of the cleanup action in August 1997. Kinder Morgan continues to monitor the ground water quarterly.

DOW/DSI recently discontinued a ground-water pump-and-treatment system. DOW continues to monitor the ground water quarterly.

In addition to this Superfund site, work at several other sites is occurring under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Ground-water contamination from the Little America Refining Company (LARCO) was detected in part of the Brookhurst subdivision. Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) LARCO Cleanup Fact Sheet Also, cleanup work is in progress under RCRA at the adjacent Texaco facility. WDEQ Texaco Cleanup Fact Sheet. Contamination from this site has not affected the cleanup of the Mystery Bridge Road Superfund site.

source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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