INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A hazardous waste site in Indianapolis could be added to the federal Superfund program’s priority list that speeds along investigations of contamination sources and eventual cleanups.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed Wednesday adding the Riverside Ground Water Contamination site and seven other sites around the nation to its priority list.
EPA says those sites have known or threatened hazardous wastes that could pose public health and environmental threats.
The Indianapolis site is a ground water plume at the northern end of the Fall Creek/White River confluence that’s tainted with vinyl chloride and trichloroethene.
The plume has contaminated five wells in two municipal well fields. Water from those tainted wells is blended with other well sources to lower contamination levels.
The site’s contamination’s source hasn’t been determined.
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