Why was the Lowry Landfill declared a Superfund site?
In 1984, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed the landfill on its National Priorities List (NPL) of sites to be addressed under the federal remediation program known as Superfund. The listing was due to groundwater contamination that resulted from the legal disposal at the site of municipal waste and an estimated 138 million gallons of liquid waste, and to the potential for that contamination to migrate off the site. Though the disposal methods complied with the environmental regulations in effect at the time, EPA determined that some of the liquid waste seeped into the ground, contaminating the soil and groundwater under the site. The site has undergone an extensive containment remedy and monitoring program since its listing on the NPL.
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