EPA completes Phase 1 of Superfund site cleanup at Unimatic Manufacturing site in Fairfield
The EPA will move on to the second phase of the project, which includes removing contaminated sediment in wetlands and monitoring groundwater.
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11ds agoA Superfund site cleanup in Fairfield is one step closer to being completed.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday that the agency demolished the heavily contaminated building at the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site and removed the soil that was tainted with cancer-causing PCBs. The cleanup was thanks to $30 million in federal funding.
The EPA first visited this site three years ago.
"We stood right here and we made a promise together that we were going to use the funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law…to clean up this legacy site. And today when we pulled up, we couldn't even recognize where we were,” says Lisa Garcia, EPA regional administrator.
Later this year the EPA will move on to the second phase of the project, which includes removing contaminated sediment in wetlands and monitoring groundwater.
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