MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — A settlement has been reached for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environmental Protection with two companies to pay the cleanup costs at the Hanlin-Allied-Olin Superfund Site near Moundsville.
Honeywell International Inc. and Olin Corporation are required to pay the costs and implement the cleanup remedy. The cleanup will hope to contain and remove any contamination of mercury, the greatest contaminant concern.
According to the EPA, costs covered by the settlement, which was originally filed on March 1, are well over $8 million. The settlement was entered on April 19 in federal court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
“This settlement reaffirms EPA’s commitment to make responsible parties pay for cleanups and prevent contamination from harming communities,” said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. “The required cleanup will help bring economic activity to the Moundsville area and promote redevelopment and reuse possibilities for the future.”
The Hanlin-Allied-Olin Site is located about three miles south of Moundsville between the Ohio River and West Virginia Route 2.
The cleanup would bring back the community’s use of the river for fishing.