The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently launched cleanup operations for a superfund site located near Lansdale in Montgomery County, Pa.
The site, North Penn Area 6, is one of the 49 U.S. Superfund sites to receive a total of $5.4 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds, which will be utilized by the EPA to expedite the removal of legacy contamination, according to a July 15 EPA news release. Additionally, the Chem Fab Superfund Site in Doyletown, PA., also received funding.
“Revitalizing communities and helping create economic vitality is a primary goal of EPA’s Superfund cleanups,” EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz said in the release. “Because of this infrastructure funding, people living and working in Lansdale and Doylestown can now look forward to these sites finally getting completely cleaned up and ultimately being transformed and reused for the benefit of those communities."
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided $4.9 million to the North Penn site for the purpose of removing and replacing industrially polluted soil, the release reported. It also contributed $500,000 to the Chem Fab Site's overall funding of $6.3 million to build an advanced groundwater extraction and treatment system, which will treat polluted groundwater before returning it to Cooks Run.
