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2. Creosote contamination in Houston's Fifth Ward - Wikipedia

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   Historic treatment of rail ties in the Houston, Texas Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods has exposed residents to cancer-causing soil contamination. [1] Creosote and its extenders were used in wood preservation processes at a nearby rail yard and have been identified as carcinogens that are hazardous to human health.

3. Brio Superfund site - Wikipedia

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   The EPA placed the Brio site on the National Priorities List in 1984. Beginning in 1989, the EPA began remediation by demolishing buildings, digging out contaminated soils for processing or disposal, containing groundwater by use of a physical barrier, and capping the site. [1] The site was removed from the National Priorities List in 2006. [5]

4. List of Superfund sites in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   The area has been covered in >24 inches of soil, but areas outside the Johns-Manville property have problems with asbestos contamination, including other beachfront areas near the Waukegan and Zion. [5] The site will be redeveloped as a soccer and baseball complex. [6] 12/30/1982: 09/08/1983: 12/31/1991: N/A: N/A ILD980500102: Yeoman Creek ...

5. Environmental remediation - Wikipedia

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   Dredging contaminated sediment in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts. The harbor is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).. Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment. [1]

6. Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area ...

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   The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn't ...

7. Climate and conservation clash: Why this Houston County ... - AOL

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   A Houston County naturalist is trying to stop a solar farm from being built on a 4,700-acre site directly adjoining the Oaky Woods Wildlife Management Area — a patch of land he was instrumental ...