EPA Puts Wilmington Cleanup Site On Emphasis List

WILMINGTON, MA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed a contaminated, 53-acre site in Wilmington on its emphasis list Monday. The new status means the Olin Chemical site at 51 Eames Street will get fast-track status for clean-up of soil and groundwater contamination under the federal government's Sueprfund program. The new status means EPA will also work with developers and Wilmington officials on reuse plans for the site.

Olin Chemical made specialty chemicals for the rubber and plastics on the site before closing in 1986, according to the Wilmington Apple, which first reported this story. Contamination on the site spread, and forced the town to close drinking water supply wells in 2002. The site has been on EPA's national priorities list since 2006.

For more on this story, see the Wilmington Apple.