MINUTEMAN NEWS CENTER Stumbling block at Exide site as PCBs found Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Â By Kendra Wingate Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyl were found last week in sediment which was removed from the bottom of the Mill River during remediation work at the Exide Battery plant to remove lead contaminants. PCBs were detected which […]
FAIRFIELD CITIZEN Latest lead cleanup of Mill River ready to launch Genevieve Reilly Published 6:37Â am, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Equipment is in place in the Mill River at the former Exide Battery site in preparation for dredging to begin. Photo: Genevieve Reilly Dredging more than 20,000 cubic yards of lead-contaminated soil from the Mill River […]
 The group says it is still concerned with a property next to the Exide site, saying that its possible that lead from the site seeped into the land. Also, drains and manhole structures could be “seriously damaged” by the acid run off from the old manufacturing processes used by Exide, it said. “Our intervention, […]
Negative economic impact on Connecticut communities 31 years and counting AFTER Exide plant was shut down: While Exide closed its troubled Southport, CT, plant in 1981 (it had been in operation since 1951), and didn’t tear down the plant until 2005, just now have plans been finalized to begin cleaning up Mill River. Exide has […]
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