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Article: Contaminated Behr site now on EPA cleanup priority list ; Breadth of project still uncertain, but a school has been closed and homes are being vented
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- March 7, 2008
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DAYTON -- Groundwater contamination in the vicinity of the Behr
Dayton Thermal Products Plant is severe enough to merit putting it
on the National Priority List of the U.S. EPA's Superfund program,
federal officials said.
The list represents the highest level of urgency for cleanups in
the nation.
If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approves later this
year, an effort to cleanup groundwater at the site would rank among
five others in Montgomery County on the National Priority List.
There are 22 active Superfund sites in the county where work is
being planned or is under way.
Prioritysites are considered the worst in the nation in terms of
hazard and are eligible for cleanup using ...