EPA to Hold Public Meeting On Crown Vantage and Curtis Paper Superfund Sites
Curtis Specialty Paper site - Bank collapses into stream. PCBs were found in areas along banks of Quequacommisacong Creek, in the sediment (sludge) of a discharge pipe from the facility and in the sediment downstream of the facility outfalls.
EPA will hold a public meeting to discuss progress on the cleanups of the Crown Vantage (Alexandria Township) and Curtis Paper (Milford) Superfund sites, located on the Delaware River.
The meeting will be held on Monday May 14, 2012 at 7 pm at the Milford Fire House.
Hit this link for EPA’s agenda for the meeting.
Lots of work has gone on for years, and the Crown Vantage Landfill Superfund site is in the final phase of design and remedial action. I wrote about some of the issues there in this July 2011 post. I recommended a permanent cleanup – additional removal of buried drums – and some natural resource and sampling work. Unfortunately, EPA responded in writing to but basically ignored my recommendations in the final ROD.
The Curtis Specialty Papers Superfund site is not nearly as far along in the cleanup process.
I rambled around the site and wrote about some problems there back in this February 1, 2012 post: Does this site look ready for redevelopment?
I’ll review the most recent documents and try to attend the meeting and raise some of those issues.
Probably the most important immediate concern is to remove any contamination and stabilize the erosion of the stream bank (see above photo). Apparently, sediments are contaminated and moving off site into the Delaware River.
Folks are urged to attend!