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EPC briefing details Sydney Mine Superfund site, groundwater restrictions and ongoing monitoring
Summary
EPC staff summarized Superfund and brownfields programs and provided a focused update on the Sydney Mine Superfund site in the Energy Industrial Park, noting soils were removed, groundwater (benzene and 1,4-dioxane) remains under monitoring, and land- and groundwater-use restrictions are in place.
Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission staff on April 17 gave a briefing on Superfund sites in the county and provided detailed updates on the Sydney Mine Superfund site located in the Energy Industrial Park.
“Allison Alisa Amram, a professional geologist in EPC’s waste division, described a Superfund site as ‘a piece of property that has environmental contamination that is so bad it's considered to be a significant risk to public health, welfare, or the environment,’” the commission record shows.
Amram summarized federal and state roles: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency manages Superfund (the National Priorities List and response authority under CERCLA), while the Florida Department of Environmental Protection reviews technical work and enforces state cleanup standards. EPC’s role is informational; the commission does not exercise Superfund…
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