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Montco Superfund site owners pay $2.1M

The current and former owners of a Montgomery County Superfund site where tires and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic resins were manufactured have agreed to pay $2.1 million in past cleanup costs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday.

The current and former owners of a Montgomery County Superfund site where tires and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic resins were manufactured have agreed to pay $2.1 million in past cleanup costs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday.

The companies - Occidental Chemical Corp. (known as OxyChem), Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations and Glenn Springs Holdings Inc. - also accepted responsibility for future cleanup costs at the site, which is in Lower Pottsgrove Township.

OxyChem currently owns the site, and Glenn Springs manages it.

The agreement was spelled out in a consent decree filed in federal court by the Justice Department.

Four over four decades - 1942 to 1985 - four owners of the property disposed of cutting oils, metal filings, tires, PVC sludge resins and other industrial wastes on the site. In 1989, EPA placed the site on its Superfund list because of unsafe levels of trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and other hazardous substances in the soil and groundwater.

OxyChem completed remedial action, which included construction a groundwater treatment plant and excavating contaminated lagoon sludges, in 2008.

- Sandy Bauers