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St. Louis company to pay $3.6M in environmental cleanup costs

St. Charles County Business Record, January, 2008 by Donna Walter

Three companies are paying the federal government close to $8 million for cleaning up an old industrial recycling site north of downtown St. Louis.

Solutia Inc. agreed this week to pay $3.6 million of that amount for remediation of the 11-acre plot near McKinley Bridge.

The Town & Country-based company is the last major party to settle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for cleanup costs at 42 Ferry Road, where various companies cleaned oil drums for decades.

The Solutia settlement was filed Monday with the St. Louis-based federal court. On Jan. 16, the EPA settled its claims against Mallinckrodt Inc. and Shell Oil Co. Mallinckrodt agreed to pay the government $3.95 million; Shell agreed to pay $215,000.

"We think this is a fair result as to...

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