The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed adding a former manufacturing property on Fisher Street to its list of federal Superfund sites.
The designation would make the polluted 18-acre property eligible for funding for the cleanup. The agency could announce the addition of the site to its National Priorities List as early as this fall.
The Superfund law provides the EPA with the funds to clean up the sites and gives it authority to force the polluters to lead the efforts or reimburse the government for the work. There are 38 sites in Massachusetts listed on the National Priorities List.Continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here
http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20150326/NEWS/150327316/1994/NEWS
This is no surprise. Franklin has been aware of the site for some time and working through the process to get it added to the listing to be eligible for government funding of the clean up required.
The EPA and MassDEP made a presentation to the Town Council July 9, 2014 in preparation for yesterday's announcement
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/07/live-reporting-epa-300-fisher-st.html
Where is the property located?
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| image of superfund site |
Additional details can be found here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/07/300-fisher-st-map.html
The original press release can be viewed here
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/b240f4dd49480dcf85257e1200725e74?OpenDocument
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