At Deadline: Delaware, EPA to begin chemical cleanup.(Late News)(chlorinated benzene removal from Metachem Products plant)(Brief Article)

Waste News, January, 2003

Delaware City, Del. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will begin removing 1 million tons of chlorinated benzene this month from portions of a former chemical plant. The EPA said Jan. 2 that cleanup technicians will treat and move the material from the former Metachem Products plant to suitable storage containers for off-site disposal.

The agency expects the process will take three to five weeks. The property has been abandoned since May 2002, the EPA said. The facility began producing chlorinated benzene chemicals in 1996 when it was owned and operated by Standard Chlorine of Delaware Inc. The chemicals were used to make pesticides, disinfectants, dyes and plastics.

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