February 26, 2008 - A federal Superfund site spanning an entire neighborhood with lead-tainted soils will be cleaned up as part of $21 million project that could take up to five years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday.
Under the plan, the EPA will remove tainted soil from several hundred residential yards and commercial properties in the 141-acre Jacobsville Neighborhood Superfund site and replace it with clean soil. The tainted soil will be disposed of at a regulated landfill.
The EPA placed the site on its Superfund priority list in July 2004. Since then, the agency has conducted six rounds of soil testing.
It's not known how many people may have been affected by the contaminated soil, but EPA officials have said the risk of exposure is high.
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