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Cooper Industries reimburses EPA for hazardous material cleanup

Cooper Industries, LLC is reimbursing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for costs incurred in cleaning up hazardous substances at Bluefield site.

Under a proposed consent decree announced Thursday, Cooper Industries will reimburse the EPA $340,000 for cleanup at the Lin-Electric Superfund site.

From 1924 to 1988, the Bluefield facility was used to rebuild electric motors and transformers used in coal mining by Cooper’s corporate predecessors.

The EPA’s cleanup operations at the site, which took place in 2008 and 2009, involved assessing and removing storage drums of hazardous waste along with cleaning up polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the drainage system and surrounding soils.

The EPA cleaned up the site to address elevated levels of PCBs that were contributing to contamination in the Bluestone River.





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