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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]
The Valley of the Drums is a 23-acre (9.3-hectare) toxic waste site in Brooks, Kentucky [2] in northern Bullitt County, near Louisville. It became a collection point for toxic wastes starting sometime in the 1960s. It caught the attention of state officials when some of the drums caught fire and burned for more than a week in 1966.
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The Gully of the Drums sits about 700 feet from the “Valley of the Drums,” where some 17,000 hazardous waste barrels were discovered in the late 1970s about 17 miles south of downtown ...
Paris’ dump and transfer center has been in a predominately Black neighborhood since 1965. The city broke ground on a $4.6 million new transfer station and recycling center Monday.
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 ...
A contested state program allowing companies to dump industrial wastewater into Kentucky’s waterways without a permit is on pause while officials conduct an internal review of its use.
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 ...