Events Calendar
In This Section
Most Read Stories
Man robbed at Tallmadge Avenue eatery
Four teens restrain man, take items from his Akron home
Police: Ohio girl dies after fall into snow bank
Complaints against officer keep coming
Another winter punch heading toward Ohio
Cuyahoga Falls residents come home to find burning couch on balcony
Blogs:
First Bell - On Education:
No City of Akron basketball tonight
Pets:
Pet telethon re-airs
The Heldenfiles:
Chipmunks "Squeakquel" on DVD/BD March 30
Akron Zips:
Late surge gives Zips ugly road win
Tribe Matters:
Blogmail response on Hafner
Cleveland Browns:
Stallworth's contract terminated
Balanced Ledger:
QB in Browns future: another mock draft
Kent State Sports:
KSU Notes – February 9
Cleveland Cavaliers:
NBA Power Rankings from Around the Internet
Buckeye Blogging:
Buckeyes grab 18 players on signing day
Varsity Letters:
Garfield at Buchtel basketball
All Da King's Men:
Palin At The Tea Party Convention
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Republican Pre-Conditions
Akron Law Café:
Citizens United v. F.E.C. (Part 4): Kennedy's and O'Connor's Basic Approaches to Constitutional Decisionmaking – Top Down and Bottom Up
Car Chase:
Collector Car Hobby Loses One of the Best—Jim Roll
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Decisions Decisions: Credit Cards or Your Mortgage?
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Loucile is looking for a Lake Erie getaway in June for three kids, ages 1, 3, and 5.
Sound Check:
Talk of the Town – Top entertainment picks for the weekend
HRLite House:
Track HR Research
Akron Gamer:
'Tecmo Bowl' recreation of Super Bowl XLIV
See Jane Style:
Do IT this week: Layering
More than 225,000 tons hauled away from toxic site. Tests, grading are next
By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Saturday, Oct 06, 2007
A major milestone has been reached in the $60 million cleanup of a toxic-waste dump in northern Summit County.
The contractor, EQ Industrial Services Inc. of Wayne, Mich., has hauled away in excess of 225,000 tons of contaminated soil and debris from two parcels off Hines Hill Road in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The work to stabilize the dump that was owned and operated by the Krejci family took two years to complete.
The two tracts, together covering 47 acres, are on opposite sites off Hines Hill Road in Boston and Northfield Center townships. The sites are separated by Interstate 271.
The contractor will soon test soils to determine whether they meet all remediation standards, the National Park Service said.
Any areas that fail to comply with toxic limits will require additional excavation work, starting next spring.
Once the site passes all testing, grading, planting of grass and final restoration plans will be developed.
Site activities until next spring will be limited to soil testing, water-quality monitoring and sediment/erosion control, the park service said.
Before it closed in 1980, the dump took in solvents, paint waste, industrial sludge, pesticides and herbicides.
The soil was contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins-furans, benzene, arsenic and toxic heavy metals.
This phase of the cleanup, costing $30 million, is being largely paid for and managed by the Ford Motor Co.
Ford and General Motors Corp. both dumped material there from their Cleveland-area auto plants in the 1950s and 1960s.
The work supervised by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation required the removal of 12 inches or less of contaminated soil in some areas and up to 25 feet of tainted soil in other areas.
Most of the contaminated soil was determined to be nonhazardous waste and went to Ohio landfills. The more severely contaminated waste was hauled to a licensed dump outside of Detroit.
The dump was run by the Krejci family from 1948 to 1980 and was acquired by the park in 1985. Park officials thought it simply was an old junkyard.
Then in 1986, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found 5,000 leaking drums.
The federal government spent $30 million on the initial Krejci surface cleanup. The government later reached a $20 million settlement with six companies: 3M, Chrysler, Waste Management, Kewanee Industries Inc., Chevron USA Inc. and Federal Metals, all of which had dumped there.
Officials have said that there is no evidence that the contamination has polluted streams or moved off the site.
The site was the first toxic-waste dump in the national park system.
Information on the cleanup is available at http://www.nps.gov/cuva/parknews/krejci.htm.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
A major milestone has been reached in the $60 million cleanup of a toxic-waste dump in northern Summit County.
Get the full article here.
Comments
Click here to post your comments
