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This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Pages in category "Superfund sites in Kentucky" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
List of Superfund sites The Valley of the Drums , officially known as the A.L. Taylor (Valley of Drums) Superfund Site, is a 23-acre (9.3 hectare) toxic waste site near Brooks in northern Bullitt County, Kentucky , near Louisville , named after the waste-containing drums strewn across the area.
The Maxey Flats low-level radioactive waste disposal site is a Superfund site in Kentucky which served as a disposal site for low-level nuclear waste from 1963 to 1977. [1] Investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency , among others, determined that plutonium stored at the site had migrated beyond the site's trenches, and the site was ...
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
Despite being one of the smallest states, New Jersey has more Superfund sites than any other state in the country. Here is why. Despite being one of the smallest states, New Jersey has more ...
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List of Superfund sites The Glen Lily Landfill is an inactive municipal solid waste landfill located in unincorporated Warren County , Kentucky northwest of the city of Bowling Green . The landfill accepted residential and industrial waste from 1975 to 1979; [ 1 ] after being idled, carcinogenic pollutants were found to be leaching into nearby ...