Little Scioto River Placed On EPA Priority List
Published: September 23, 2009
MARION, Ohio —The Little Scioto River in central Ohio has been designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as one of the nation’s most complex hazardous waste sites, making it eligible for federal investigation and cleanup.
The agency announced Wednesday that the river near Marion is one of 11 new sites on the Superfund National Priorities List of areas that pose a risk to people and the environment. The EPA says four miles of river sediment are contaminated with toxin-containing coal tar creosote from the former Baker Wood Preserving Co. The lumber preservation company operated a treatment plant in Marion until the 1960s.
The government excavated 68,000 tons of sediment and shoreline from 2002 to 2006. The Little Scioto flows into the Scioto River, a main tributary of the Ohio River.
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With concern to the Little Scioto River, I think if you go downstream(unless the Scioto goes upstream), towards the Ohio River, you will also find even more pollution, and I mean pollution of a much more deadly variety than coal tar…although that is more than enough. Trace it down through Chillicothe(where the Mead Paper plant is located), then down past the Piketon Gaseaous Fusion Plant(what was originally called The Atomic Plant—uranium-enrichment plant), and I believe you will find enough rivers, tributaries, streams, creeks, and underground water and springs, to make your eyes glow in the dark.
It’s about time!!! It’s been way long overdue!!! People used to take their family to the park on the south side of town and they used to be able to swim in the waters… was always a nice place to take the family… but that was YEARS and YEARS AGO!
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