Announcements and Key Topics

In April 2024, EPA proposed a plan to protect people living and working in residential and commercial buildings at the Meeker Avenue Plume Superfund site in the Greenpoint/East Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. Groundwater and soil in the area is contaminated with chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs), including tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE), which can vaporize from groundwater, travel through soil ...
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Background

EPA added the Meeker Avenue Plume site to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in March 2022. The Meeker Avenue Plume site is in the Greenpoint/East Williamsburg area of ...
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