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A $17 million plan has been selected to clean up contaminated soil, sediment and groundwater at the former Keddy Mill in Windham, a federal Superfund pollution site.
The site include a dilapidated, two-story concrete industrial structure that has elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos and other contaminants known to endanger human health and the environment.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said this week the plan for the seven-acre property, at 7 Depot St. in the Little Falls portion of Windham, is based on its remedial investigation report, human health and ecological risk assessments, a feasibility study and comments received on a proposal issued this past summer.
“EPA’s cleanup plan for the Keddy Mill Superfund Site is a strong effort to ensure the health and safety of community members, protecting them for generations to come.” said David Cash, the agency's New England regional administrator. “Cleaning up Superfund sites helps us ensure that no community, no family and no child has to face exposure to chemicals and other dangerous substances in their day to day lives.”
The plan comes nearly a decade after federal regulators launched an environmental review of the site.
Keddy Mill was listed on the National Priorities List of Superfund sites in 2014.
Superfund is a federal program that investigates and cleans up complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites.
ITT LLC is the “potentially responsible party” for the site and has agreed to building demolition and removal of contaminated materials.
EPA’s plan is expected to take two to four years to design and execute and will take place after most of the mill complex and associated structures are demolished.
The plan, which the EPA estimates will cost around $17 million to implement fully, includes the following components:
“This plan protects the human health or welfare of residents, the environment from actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants into the environment.” said Windham Town Manager Barry Tibbetts.
Maine Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Melanie Loyzim said the plan is expected to return the property “to a productive future.”
The Keddy Mill site has a history of operations dating to the late 1700s and ending in 1997. The building that will be demolished and removed was used as a grist and carding mill, pulp mill, box-board manufacturing facility and as a steel mill. Throughout the industrial history, several buildings have been demolished and others added to the complex.
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