Community meeting to discuss Navassa Superfund Site
NAVASSA, NC (WWAY) — Additional cleanup of contaminated soil and debris began on November 3rd at the Navassa Superfund Site and is expected to continue over the next several weeks.
The cleanup in Operable Unit 2 (OU2) of the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp is expected to take four to six weeks to finish.
The Multistate Environmental Response Trust, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) will host a meeting to discuss the additional OU2 remediation.
Additional cleanup involves excavating contaminated soil and debris found beyond planned excavation areas.
The meeting will be on November 18th at the Navassa Community Center from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Updates are also supposed to be shared on the OU3 feasibility study which is the tidally influenced marsh along Sturgeon Creek.
EPA held a meeting in Navassa in September to explain the proposed plan of the 12-acre OU4 North portion of the 34-acre OU4 which is the former pond and process area. The proposed cleanup would involve removing contaminated surface soil and developing appropriate controls to manage risk associated with remaining subsurface soil.
The OU4 Biosparging Pilot Study has launched to evaluate whether injecting oxygen into the aquifer would effectively remediate contamination in subsurface soils and groundwater.
