HOLLAND ROAD AT LITTLE SCIOTO RIVER
The Little Scioto River (LSR) Superfund site is located in Marion Township, Marion County, Ohio. The Little Scioto River flows into the Scioto River, which is a major tributary of the Ohio River. At the LSR site, a four-mile stretch of Little Scioto River sediment is contaminated with coal tar creosote that contains hazardous polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds and which originated from the nearby former and now vacent Baker Wood Creosoting (BWC) facility. The former BWC facility preserved lumber products from approximately 1890 through the late 1960s. Railroad ties were preserved with coal-tar creosote and then stacked to dry on the western portion of the property. By 1946, the Ohio Department of Health had notified BWC that chemicals (likely creosote) were being discharged from BWC into the combined sewers that drained into nearby North Rockswale Ditch and the Little Scioto River. From 2002 to 2006, EPA conducted a substantial amount of excavation work in the Little Scioto River, removing 68,000 tons of PAH-contaminated sediment from a two-mile stretch of the river as well as from a polluted shoreline area. EPA proposed to place the LSR site on the National Priorities List (NPL) in April 2009 and listed it on the NPL in September 2009. Site Responsibility The LSR site is being addressed through state and federal actions.
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People living within a 1 mile radius |
$50,241 |
Average Income |
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