The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking public comments on a plan to expand the clean-up at Koppers Wood-Treating Facility in Carbondale.
The EPA wants the current site owner, Beazer East, to excavate contaminated soil from over eight acres of the property for disposal in an off-site landfill. Another seven acres of contaminated soil would be covered with a one-foot thick clean soil cover.
From 1902 until 1991, the former Koppers site treated railroad cross ties, utility poles and other wood products with chemical preservatives that were released into the environment, contaminating some of the property.
The EPA is taking public comments until April 19th.
For more information on the comment process, click here.
