Dive Summary:
- A Londonderry, N.H., landfill will remain a Superfund site, but an EPA spokesman announced on Friday that a review had been completed and that the area poses no immediate threat to area residents.
- The Auburn Road Landfill was used for disposal during the 1960s when more than 1,000 drums of chemical waste and other materials were left there.
- The site has been closed since the 1980s and was declared a Superfund site in 1987.
From the article:
Though the former town landfill on Auburn Road remains a Superfund site, federal health officials said Friday that the area poses no immediate danger to residents, based on the site's most recent Environmental Protection Agency review.
On Friday afternoon David Deegan, spokesman for the EPA's New England Regional Office, said the agency completed the fifth, five-year review report on cleanup work done on the local Superfund site. ...