ACTON, MA-W.R. Grace is exploring the possibility of redeveloping portions of its 259-acre former Superfund site here and in Concord. This move is stirring up local activists who contend that the site is not fully cleaned up.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental protection treat this property as a Superfund site–a designation it received in 1979–but Congress exempted the site from Superfund regulations in 1980. In 1978, chemicals from Grace's battery-separator plant had seeped into two town wells, which were ultimately shut down.
“They are not legally required to clean up the site,” Doug Halley, health director for the town of Acton, tells GlobeSt.com. “But they have been following Superfund regulations.”
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