Thursday, February 28, 2013
Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. have paid the settlement demanded after chemicals damaged wildlife in the Aberjona River and wetlands and the Mystic Lakes downstream.
As reported on Woburn Patch, Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. was ordered to pay $4.25 million by the Federal Department of Justice to settle claims of natural resource damages in Woburn on the Industri-plex Superfund site. The decsion was made in May of 2012. According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Environment Protection (DEP) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, the defendants paid the $4.25 million settlement this week and state and federal agencies are looking for residents and organizations to provide suggestions on how to spend the money. “With this settlement, we can fund a range of projects designed to restore the natural resources for all to enjoy,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs …
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Results of further contamination testing at the "A Civil Action" Superfund site—Wells G & H—revealed.
Wells G & H of the infamous East Woburn Superfund site poses no threat to buildings in its vicinity, according to testing results by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The wells are part of the Superfund site chronicled in the book and movie "A Civil Action." Last year, the EPA opted to collect more data in the area to ensure that contaminants had not migrated as vapor from the groundwater and into buildings near the site. Results of the 2011 testing reveal that samples collected at residences and other occupied buildings near the UniFirst, W.R. Grace and NEP properties are not health risks. "Our conclusions were mainly that vapor intrusion does not pose a health threat inside buildings in the vicinity," announced the EPA last …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Public can submit comments on the federal case related to 'A Civil Action' this month.
Decades after arsenic and other chemicals contaminated the city, a third settlement was reached last month. Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. will pay $4.25 million to settle claims of natural resource damages in Woburn on the Industri-plex Superfund site, according to the federal Department of Justice. The Industri-plex Superfund site is one of several Superfund clean-up sites in the city of Woburn, located where tanneries and chemical companies were once in business. (See timeline below.) Industri-plex is near the Anderson Regional Transportation Center, along the Aberjona River and the Mystic River watershed, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Although the 'A Civil Action' case is most known in the city …
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zaab
10:32 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Suggestion for what to do with the money: Convert all of the parking lots (in the industrial area on commercial st and behind the mall) to permeable parking lots so that the flooding that occurs downstream (when it rains anything over 3 inches in 24 hours)...That soil filtration alone will decrease runoff 'pollution' and mediate the flooding. more ›