Showing posts with label steel drums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steel drums. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Lansing MI largest park could reopen years after closure

March 10, 2010- The gates to Lansing's largest park could swing open again for the public if city officials and nearby neighbors don’t raise a din of objections.

Some effusively anticipate a future of picnicking in Crego Park, which has been closed since 1986, when investigators found 200 drums of paint sludge and other toxic waste.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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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