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STRATFORD -- The Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday will present its latest affairs for administration three pockets of baneful decay generated by Raymark Industries, the automotive bulb that bankrupt in 1989 afterwards 70 years of operation, abrogation several dozen attenuated areas in town.
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The proposed $4.6 actor activity would lay a 6-acre abiding cap over almost 42,000 cubic yards of attenuated clay at 546 and 600 East Broadway, now a abandoned lot and a baby bartering business.
The activity would additionally move to that encasement about 860 cubic yards of contaminants from a Third Avenue residence. The actual funds would go against akin development from added attenuated sites in town, which accommodate a town-owned artifice on Beacon Point now acclimated for parking and baiter launching, as able-bodied as some 20 added attenuated sites, EPA agent Jim Murphy said.
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The EPA will present the abounding plan Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Stratford High School library. The accessible will be accustomed to ask questions, but comments will be bound to a additional affair appointed for Oct. 6 in Boondocks Council Chambers, according to the mayor's appointment and the EPA.
On Wednesday, Mayor John Harkins and the association accumulation Save Stratford issued statements acknowledging the ample outlines of the proposed plan -- in accurate that it wouldn't displace added than 1,000 cubic yards of material.
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The two parties criticized the EPA, however, for not yet creating a absolute cleanup plan for all of the attenuated sites about boondocks and for not yet able to move any of the decay out of Stratford.
"We charge to accept the amount and ambit of what we're angry for," said Erin Holroyd, co-founder of Save Stratford. "And we charge that adept plan to accommodate for the abatement of at atomic some of the decay from Stratford. The piecemeal access we accept been affected to alive with appropriately far provides no such assurance."
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Murphy responded that the EPA will assignment against a absolute plan as anon as this accurate activity is finalized.
All told, there are 20 appointed regions in the boondocks that accept clay attenuated with baneful decay -- asbestos, PCBs and advance -- generated from the Raymark accomplishment plant.
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Since 1994, added than $200 actor has been funneled into cleanup efforts at aloof a few of those locations, according to Murphy, including the old branch armpit off Barnum Avenue Cutoff, which was already one of the better Superfund sites in the country and is now the armpit of Home Depot and Walmart.
Murphy said the agglomeration sum paid for cleanup, as able-bodied as the architecture of a 33-acre abiding cap that contains decay at the branch site, and for three acting caps -- below the soccer fields at Short Beach park, below the old Raymark baseball acreage and forth Shore Road beside the Housatonic Baiter Club.
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