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This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania 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]
Aroclor 1254 and Aroclor 1260, made by Monsanto, was a primary contaminant of the pollution in the Housatonic River. [24] Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, and some remediation has taken place, [25] [26] the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs. [27]
Main article: Pollution of the Ganges: Ghadir River: Southern Beirut region, Lebanon [41] About 120,000 inhabitants in the Hayy El-Sellom neighborhood. [42] The most polluted river in Lebanon, described in 2017 by Lebanese minister of public works Youssef Fenianos as no longer normal water, but sewage water. [43] Industrial zones by the river. [43]
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From circa 1932 until 1977, the Pittsfield Plant discharged PCB pollution to the Housatonic River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the Pittsfield plant and several miles of the Housatonic as a Superfund site in 1997, and ordered GE to remediate the site. EPA and GE began a cleanup of the area in 1999.
Between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of a water-based latex finishing solution spilled into the river
Connoquenessing Creek in Butler, Pennsylvania. In 2000, a scientific study was conducted to determine the health of the creek. Researchers discovered that only the Mississippi River received more toxic materials than the Connoquenessing, making the small river the second most polluted waterway in the United States.