EPA Earmarks 14.4M for Hagerstown, MD Superfund

April 17, 2009- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $14.4 million cleanup of a Hagerstown Superfund site where companies dumped DDT, arsenic and other toxic chemicals from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The plan for the Central Chemical Corp. property in the middle of this Western Maryland city has two main goals, said Mitch Cron, remedial project manager at the EPA's regional office in Philadelphia.

First, it would remove a threat to public health from contaminated soil at the 19-acre site. It also should halt or minimize the flow of contaminants into the groundwater from a lagoon filled with pesticide and fertilizer ingredients.

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