The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to address the contamination in the Creek Corridor portion of the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund Site in Lockport, N.Y.
The Creek Corridor is about one mile long, extending from the Erie Canal to Harwood Street in the City of Lockport. The Creek and other properties nearby are contaminated with lead and other chlorine compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
PCBs can affect the immune, reproductive, nervous and endocrine systems, and can potentially cause cancer.
This portion of the site cleanup would cost about $23 million.
The cleanup proposal is looking to completely remove contaminated sediment by excavation and off of the site disposal, capping and institutional controls to address contaminated soil at Upson Park, the former Flintkote Plant, White Transportation, and former Flintkote Plant, White Transportation, and former United Paperboard Company properties. The Clinton and William Street dams would be removed.
"We are making steady progress in cleaning up this site," said Judith Enck, Regional Administrator. "The proposed plan will further that progress by removing much of the contaminated soil that continues to pose a threat and I encourage people to comment."
Under the proposal, EPA would be conducting work at:
- The former United Paperboard Company property located at 62 and 70 Mill Street.
- The White Transportation property location at 30 through 40 Mill Street.
- Upson Park
- The former Flintkote Plant properly located at 198 and 300 Mill Street.
The EPA outlined a three-phase approach to this cleanup. This proposal is the second phase. The first phase involved the demolition at he residential and Flintkote building properties and the final phase will address groundwater and contaminated sediment in the Creek from Lockport to its discharge in Lake Ontario.
