EPA Year In Review: Is Wildwood Safe from Dioxin?
Here are some interesting notations from the Environmental Protection Agency open house held in Wildwood earlier this year. With the removal of more buried barrels of paint waste earlier this month, some residents still wonder what to believe.
At the last open house meeting hosted by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, they told Wildwood residents they do not believe there are any remaining human health issues at the former Superfund Bliss-Ellisville site in Wildwood. A portion of the remediated area, the Strecker Forest development, was proposed to be constructed into 21 houses by homebuilder Wesley Byrne. But some residents and city officials were not sure what to make of the latest EPA cleanup effort and underground barrels found at the former toxic waste dump off Strecker Road in Wildwood earlier this month. See previous article: EPA's Latest 'Dioxin-Related' Cleanup in Wildwood Prompts New Concerns The three barrels, estimated at 55-gallon drums, were …
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Marc Perez
7:02 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Every Government agency that exists could state the Dioxin sites are clean and clear, ready to go, but who would build/buy a house on a superfund clean up site? Not going to happen! Might be a good place for a park? more ›