The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed the Recticon/Allied Steel Corp. Superfund Site in East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania from the Superfund National Priorities List. Since October 2017, EPA has deleted 12 sites and partially deleted three sites from the National Priorities List.
The five acre site, which was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989, consists of two properties: the former Recticon facility and the Allied Steel Products Corporation facility. Historical operations and spills at the site contaminated soil and groundwater with hazardous chemicals.
On December 15, 2017, EPA issued the Final Close Out Report for the site documenting that all performance standards at the site have been achieved and that no additional Superfund response actions are necessary to protect human help and the environment.
Clean up work included excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated soils, and installation of a groundwater extraction and treatment system in combination with bioremediation to address contaminated groundwater.
Both properties that comprise the site are currently being reused by commercial businesses.
Published in the November 2018 Edition
