Article: United States: Benson company celebrates successful groundwater cleanup.

Byline: sanjayc03

Apache Nitrogen Products Inc. celebrated a milestone Thursday: the successful removal of nearly a half million pounds of nitrates.The company hosted a celebration along with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality at the area on the property located southeast of Benson known as the wetlands, or Superfund site.About 10 years ago, Apache Nitrogen began to clean up groundwater and soils in the area with the oversight of the EPA. The groundwater was contaminated with nitrates.Apache Nitrogen, which manufactures solid and liquid ammonium nitrate, ammonium nitrate-based fertilizers, nitric acid and aqua ...

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