EPA’s Policy of Superfund Sites Redevelopment into Recreational Facilit

EPAs Policy of Superfund Sites Redevelopment into Recreational Facilities The success of Chisman CreekIntroductionSuperfund turn ups are located all across the unify States and its territories. These sites have been deemed the worst of the worst in terms of environmental victimize they pose a threat to human health and the environment, prior to their amends. Superfund sites are usually a result of several(prenominal) years of contamination however, in that respect are some instances when they are one-time accidents. United States Environmental Protection office staff (EPA) is in charge of Superfund, which is the common term for Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and liability Act (CERCLA) and the enforcement of this law in the United States. Superfund was passed in 1980 to establish enforcement adjoin contamination sites in the U.S. and their cleanup. EPA has set up several initiatives and policies that deal with the indemnity and redevelopment of these si tes. EPA focuses their remediation policies on turning these sites back into productive and serviceable areas for the community, whether that reuse is residential, commercial, industrial, or amateur use. Chisman Creek Superfund Site in Virginia was elect as a site that could be successfully remediated into a recreational facility and serve as an example for other site remediation policy makers. The process by which this contaminated old landfill was redeveloped into a phenomenal recreational facility is an example of EPA successfully pulling together several issues and actors to achieve their agenda. IssuesSuperfund sites could have many different contaminations and remediation characteristics. The characterization of the site should strongly correlate with... ...ncy and sanative Responses, Reuse of CERCLA Landfill and Containment Sites, OSWER 9375.3-05P, September 1999.EPA, Office of emergency and Remedial Responses, Returning Superfund Sites To Productive Use, OSWER 9378.0-16FS , March 1999.EPA, Office of Emergency and Remedial Responses, Chisman Creek, York County, Virginia Technical Appendix, OSWER 9378.0-16FS, March 1999. WWW.EPA.GOV/oerrpage/superfund/programs/recycle/benefits.htmWWW.EPA.GOV/oerrpage/superfund/programs/recycle/bensum.htmWWW.EPA.GOV/oerrpage/superfund/programs/recycle/recycle.htmWWW.EPA.GOV/oerrpage/superfund/programs/recycle/list170.htmColvin, George H., RCRA cleaning Reforms, Environmental Protection, February 2000.Bolitzer, B and N. R. Netusil, The Impact of open spaces on property value in Portland, Oregon, Journal of Environmental Management, 59, 185-193, 2000.