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Cabot - Koppers Superfund Site Update (B)
This item is a request for the City Commission to hear two presentations on the status of the Cabot - Koppers Superfund Site from Scott Miller, Remedial Project Manager, United States Environmental Protection Agency, and Mitchell Brourman, Project Manager for Beazer East, Inc. **ESTIMATED PRESENTATIONS 30 MINUTES.**
Explanation
The Cabot- Koppers Superfund Site includes two properties: Cabot Carbon and the former Koppers property. The Cabot site is approximately 50 acres and includes the area where a charcoal production facility operated from 1945 to 1965. A shopping center, a car dealership, and other businesses are operating on the site today. The Koppers site includes the area where a wood treatment facility operated from 1916 to 2009. This site covers 90 acres to the west of Cabot Carbon. In March 2010, Beazer East, Inc. purchased the Koppers site to facilitate Superfund Remediation. This presentation will focus on the Koppers portion of the Superfund site (see Attachment A - map that identifies the entire Superfund site).
In 1984, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) placed the Cabot - Koppers Superfund Site on their National Priorities List. USEPA has been responsible for directing investigations and clean-up activities by Beazer East, Inc., the party responsible for the Koppers site.
In 1990, USEPA issued a clean-up plan (Record of Decision, or ROD) for the site, which was partially implemented by Beazer East, Inc. However, source remediation was not completed due to the discovery that the extent of the contamination in the source area and the ground water had not been adequately assessed.
In 2011, USEPA issued a second clean-up plan (ROD) for the site. The plan finalized the clean-up activities for the Koppers site and revised the requirements of the 1990 ROD. A consent decree was executed in federal court on July 9, 2013, requiring Beazer East, Inc. to complete Koppers site...
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