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This is a list of Superfund sites in Georgia 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 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]
"In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...
The EPA and state agencies use the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) to calculate a site score (ranging from 0 to 100) based on the actual or potential release of hazardous substances from a site. A score of 28.5 places a site on the National Priorities List, eligible for long-term, remedial action (i.e., cleanup) under the Superfund program.
In a letter to state regulators, federal EPA says Georgia’s coal ash plan is inadequate. Grant Blankenship. February 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM. ... met when the waste in a closed, unlined impoundment ...
In addition to the EPA's action, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has issued multiple violation notices in connection with the landfill's disposal of the hazardous waste.
The Hercules 009 Landfill Superfund site is a 16.5-acre (67,000 m 2) property that is bordered by Georgia State Route 25 (Spur 25) on the west; an automobile dealership on the north; a juvenile slash pine forest on the east; and several homes, a church, a school, and a strip shopping center to the south/southeast of the property.
The EPA plans to bar Alabama from disposing of toxic waste in the same manner as Georgia Power. But they haven’t intervened in the Peach State, yet. Feds rejected Alabama’s toxic waste ...