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REVERE SUPER FUND SITE
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By Rayna Polsky
After a little rummaging, I learned that "Echo,
Inc." was a chemical reclamation plant — they produced "copper
fungicides," amongst other things — in Nockamixon Township.
Beginning around 1963, Echo was operated at various times by Echo
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Bucks County History - http://www.buckscountyhistory.org/
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Revere Chemical Company Nockamixon Township, Pa. – Where
sludge-filled lagoons once oozed contaminants into the nearest
creek, now a grass-covered meadow hosts birds and wildlife. The
lagoons were part of the Revere Chemical Superfund site that was
abandoned in 1969, and has since been cleaned up and the
property ownership transferred to Nockamixon Township.
Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
township board members, and local politicians gathered today at
the site to celebrate the deed's turnover to the township. The
deed says that the 113-acre piece of land is to be preserved as
open space. The township tentatively plans to add walking paths,
benches and gazebos, once funding is set aside for them. |
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EPA Superfund |
| For Immediate Release: June 14, 1999
Cleanup at Bucks County Superfund Site is 600th Nationwide
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NOCKAMIXON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- EPA Regional Administrator W.
Michael McCabe and Representative James Greenwood met here today
with township and state officials to commemorate the cleanup of
the 600th Superfund hazardous waste site out of a total of 1,396
sites nationwide -- the Revere Chemical Company site.
"The completion of this cleanup marks a watershed in the
Superfund process, which works faster and more efficiently than
ever. Using several streamlining measures, the EPA has cleaned
up twice as many sites in the last five years than during the
previous 12 years," said McCabe.
The 113-acre Revere Chemical site was an acid, metal and plating
waste processing operation where liquid wastes were stored on
site in unlined lagoons. When a federal court ordered the plant
to close in 1969 for contaminating a tributary of Rapp Creek,
the company abandoned drums, waste lagoons and piles of solid
waste at this Bucks County site. |
| For Immediate Release: October 12, 1999
Cleanup Underway at 13 Toxic Sites in Pennsylvania
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Ruth Podems, (215) 814-5540
PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has
completed cleanup construction at 13 more of Pennsylvania’s most
hazardous Superfund sites this year.
Construction completion occurs when 1) all physical construction
has been completed at a site, such as a protective cap over a
landfill or a groundwater treatment system; 2) all immediate
hazardous waste threats are under control; and 3) all long-term
threats have been addressed.
For instance, if a groundwater treatment system has been
installed, but it will take decades to pump out and treat the
contaminated water, construction is deemed complete at the site,
even though the groundwater is not yet clean.
EPA uses its extensive resources, personnel and technology to
clean up the largest, most complex hazardous waste sites in each
state. This year’s 13 construction completions brings to 56 the
number of sites where construction has been completed out of a
total 114 Superfund sites in Pennsylvania. |
| Revere Chemical Company
EPA Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic)
Pennsylvania
Bucks County
Off Route 611
just north of Route 412 in Nockamixon Township EPA ID#
PAD051395499
8th Congressional District
Last Update: December 2006
Construction activities were completed in the fall of 1998. The
remedy established by the Record of Decision has been completed
at the site and is protective of human health and the
environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is
overseeing the long-term maintenance of the site. Groundwater
monitoring will continue and quarterly inspections of the
security system, the cap and the storm water management system
will be conducted. An annual inspection report is submitted to
the EPA including photos and copies of the inspection reports.
EPA recently conducted a Five-Year Review of the cleanup remedy
at the Site. EPA is required to conduct this review to ensure
that the remedy remains protective of human health and the
environment. As required, a similar review will be conducted
every five years. The review, which was completed in May 2006,
is the second such review at the Site. A copy of the final
5-Year Review Report, dated May 18, 2006, is available on the
Internet at www.epa.gov .
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