The U.S. EPA added nine hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List of superfund sites and is proposing to add 10 sites to the list, the agency announced.
Since 1983, 1,661 sites have been listed with 359 sites cleaned up. The list now has 1,302 sites and 62 proposed sites, the EPA said. The new sites include: Continental Cleaners, (in Miami, Fla.; Sauer Dump, in Dundalk, Md.; Compass Plaza Well TCE, in Rogersville, Mo.; Chemfax Inc., in Gulfport, Miss.; Southeastern Wood Preserving, in Canton, Miss.; CTS of Asheville Inc., in Asheville, N.C.; Eighteenmile Creek, in Niagara County...