The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will start a new round of soil sampling on properties that may be contaminated with lead from the former NL Industries lead smelter and battery recycling plant in Granite City, Ill.
The NL Industries facility operated as a secondary lead smelter and refining plant from 1903 to 1983. The properties to be sampled were identified during a cleanup that took place from 1993 to 2000. During the final years of that cleanup, the NL Industries-Taracorp Superfund Site Group, at the direction of EPA and working with Illinois EPA, tested soil in many locations near the site. Contaminated soil was excavated, replaced with clean soil and the yards were re-landscaped.
During that cleanup, 59 property owners did not allow sampling. Another 25 denied access to remove contaminated soil after the samples tested positive for high lead levels.
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