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Owners of Abandoned Hazardous Waste Left Warning Signsnew
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcer Bob Rosen was dumbfounded that a now-defunct company left 13,000 drums, most of them filled with hazardous waste, in an open-air shipping depot in southeast Atlanta. Then he spotted a stream of fluid spouting from a cracked barrel.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
07-15-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
A Company Goes Bust -- and Leaves the EPA with One Big Messnew
A potential toxic soup sits in a shipping depot in southeast Atlanta. A shuttered company that specialized in disposing hazardous waste has abandoned about 13,000 containers there. Fifty-five-gallon drums containing flammable oils and lubricants are stacked on and amid chemicals that, if mixed with the flammables, could ignite.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
07-01-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
