What are the AOCs and what work is planned at the Site for 2007 and beyond?
On February 21, 2007 the KRSG voluntarily entered into two separate agreements with the USEPA that will guide the majority of work from this point forward at the Superfund Site. These agreements are referred to as AOCs, which means Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent, and they are filed with United States District Courts. You can Read USEPA’s fact sheet on the two agreements. The first agreement – referred to as the SRI/FS AOC – describes a series of supplemental remedial investigations and feasibility studies that will be carried out over the next several years. The work will proceed in phases across seven distinct Areas of the Site and four former paper mill properties. Field work for the new investigations in Area 1 – the stretch of the Kalamazoo River from Morrow Dam to the Plainwell Dam and Portage Creek from Alcott Street to its confluence with the Kalamazoo River started in the summer of 2007, and includes sampling of fish, sediment, floodplain soils, and su
