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NEW TREATMENT PLANT MARKS CLEANUP PROGRESS AT RE-SOLVE SUPERFUND SITE

Release Date: 09/23/1998
Contact Information: Alice Kaufman, EPA Community Affairs, 617-918-1064

Boston- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency welcomes the community to an informative meeting on Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 7:00 P.M., at the Dartmouth Town Hall to learn about the recently completed state-of-the-art groundwater treatment system that will treat contaminated groundwater and prevent contamination from migrating from the Re-Solve, Inc., Superfund Site in North Dartmouth, MA. The treatment plant is the third and final clean-up activity at the site. Design and construction of the groundwater treatment system cost approximately $5 million and eight months to complete. The facility will operate until groundwater is cleaned to safe levels, in accordance with the 1987 Record of Decision.

"The accelerated cleanup at the Re-Solve Site should be a model across the country. When companies that are responsible for pollution work in partnership with the agency we can accomplish great things," said John P. DeVillars, EPA's New England regional administrator.

As part of a community outreach initiative under the Superfund program, twenty local fishermen with Massachusetts fishing licenses will assist a fish monitoring effort in a one time Fishing Derby at Cornell Pond, in North Dartmouth, MA on October 3, 1998. There has been a fish advisory against eating fish caught in the pond in place since discovery of PCB contamination stemming from the Re-Solve Site. Roy F. Weston, under contract to the responsible parties, will monitor the fishing derby and distribute awards for the largest fish caught.

The Re-Solve, Inc. Superfund Site is on North Hixville Road, North Dartmouth, MA and was listed as a Superfund Site in 1983 when extensive PCB and volatile organic compounds were discovered in the soil and groundwater. In 1988, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health established a fishing advisory in Cornell Pond and Copicut River due to elevated levels of PCBs in fish. Only Catch and release fishing is permitted in the pond and river.

For more information on the ReSolve Inc., Site contact Joseph LeMay at (617) 573-9622.