PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says former owners of a site once used to handle and store chemicals have agreed to reduce chemical contamination and control leakage of hazardous materials into groundwater.
The property known as the former Townsend Industries Facility includes about 12 acres and a 45,000-square-foot building. It is located in Pleasant Hill.
The EPA says a variety of hazardous waste compounds have been detected.
It was owned by TH Agriculture & Nutrition from 1975 to 1981 and Elementis Chemicals from 1981 until 1985.
The companies agree under the proposed settlement to operate and maintain groundwater containment and remediation systems “as long as needed to clean up an off-site contaminant plume and reduce the mass of on-site contamination.”
The current owner, a company called DD#1, must provide site access.
