The U.S. EPA announced it has entered into an agreement with General Electric Co. and SI Group Inc. to collect and dispose contaminated groundwater and other liquid leaching from the Dewey Loeffel Landfill outside of Nassua, N.Y.
The former landfill was named a superfund site in 1980, the EPA said. From 1952 until 1968, the site was used for the disposal of an estimated 46,000 tons of waste materials generated by several companies, the EPA said. The waste included industrial solvents, waste oils, polychlorinated biphenyls, scrap materials, sludge and solids. Volatile organic compounds and...
