NH Superfund Now 30 Years Old

April 29, 2009- Tucked in the southeastern nub of the Granite State, Kingston is graced by a parade of center-of-town Colonials and pocked by dozens of glacier-gouged frog ponds. But the town is also home to a Superfund hazardous-waste site that the Environmental Protection Agency has been working on for nearly 30 years.

But until 1980 that site was home to Kingston Steel Drum, a factory that cleaned and reconditioned industrial 55-gallon steel drums. It was shut by the Justice Department and the E.P.A., then declared a Superfund site. My father and I used to work there.

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