EPA, Coast Guard to Clean Up Former Pulp Mill Site in Northern California

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard will clean up millions of gallons of hazardous materials leaking from underground storage tanks, as well as tons of sludge contaminated by the tanks at a defunct pulp mill in Northern California.

EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld told Bloomberg BNA in a March 28 interview from the cleanup site that “it looks like Chernobyl here. You have three factory buildings sitting on a spit of land between Humboldt Bay and the Pacific Ocean, on a seismic fault line. We are very fortunate there was never an accident.”

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