Displaying items by tag: brownfield remediation
After cleanup, what’s the future of the South Knoxville Superfund site?
The Montgomery Village public housing complex in South Knoxville is separated only by railroad tracks from the Smoky Mountain Smelters Superfund site (and the Witherspoon dump site). S. Heather Duncan/Hellbender Press
A better use of the SMS/Witherspoon properties in Vestal may be constrained by toxic legacy and uncertain ownership
An imminent cleanup of a Superfund site in Vestal could pave the way for redevelopment and new life for the highly polluted property. But its future is complicated by muddy ownership and contradictory visions for its use.
The Smoky Mountain Smelters company left behind soil, groundwater and surface water pollution when it shuttered in 1994. But federal infrastructure funding is now slated to finish off a cleanup begun by the federal Environmental Agency at the Maryville Pike tract. Groundwater contamination below the surface is the most significant remaining problem.
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