The EPA will conduct comprehensive reviews of completed cleanup work at 14 National Priority List (NPL) Superfund sites, including three federal facilities, in New England this year. The sites, located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, will undergo a legally required Five-Year Review to ensure that previous remediation efforts at the sites continue to protect public health and the environment.

“Ensuring completed Superfund site cleanup work remains protective of human health and the environment is a priority for EPA,” said EPA New England Acting Regional Administrator Deb Szaro. “By completing reviews of the cleanups every five years, EPA fulfills its duty to remain vigilant so that these communities continue to be protected.”

The Superfund Sites where EPA will conduct Five-Year Reviews in 2022 are listed below. The web links provide detailed information on site status as well as past assessment and cleanup activity. Once the Five-Year Review is complete, its findings will be posted to the website in a final report.

Five-Year Reviews of Superfund sites in New England to be completed in 2022:

  • Auburn Road Landfill, Londonderry, New Hampshire
  • Beede Waste Oil, Plaistow, New Hampshire
  • Dover Municipal Landfill, Dover, New Hampshire
  • Gallup’s Quarry, Plainfield, Connecticut
  • Kellogg-Deering Well Field, Norwalk, Connecticut
  • O’Connor Co., Augusta, Maine
  • Peterson/Puritan, Inc., Lincoln/Cumberland, Rhode Island
  • Union Chemical Co., Inc., South Hope, Maine
  • Winthrop Landfill, Winthrop, Maine

Federal Facilities

  • Hanscom Field/Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Natick Laboratory Army Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts
  • Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine

Five-Year Reviews of Superfund sites in New England to start in 2022 and to be completed in 2023:

  • Fletcher’s Paint Works & Storage, Milford, New Hampshire
  • Shpack Landfill, Norton/Attleboro, Massachusetts
For more information, visit www.epa.gov.

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