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AbsentEmpire t1_iwvwcln wrote

Reply to comment by baldude69 in Hilco to start building ‘Bellwether District’ on old PES refinery grounds in early 2023 by ColdJay64

The whole area is a super fund site, unless they build the park over a slab of concrete capping all that under it, probably don't want to be spending time there for a while.

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baldude69 t1_iwvx2gv wrote

Isn’t the extensive remediation they’re doing there supposed to address that? Sounds like they’re literally sucking toxins out of the soil

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AbsentEmpire t1_iwwoyjm wrote

It's certainly going to help, but people won't be able to live at the site for a long long time. There's concern that the contamination goes so deep it could contaminate the aquifer.

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baldude69 t1_iwyzbo7 wrote

Yea I read some about the stuff they were encountering back when they started working on this. Evidence that they had literally been dumping thousand and thousands of gallons of gasoline into the soil back in the 19th century when gasoline was just considered a waste byproduct

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