Renewed efforts to clear toxic pesticides from a Richmond waterway are creating divisions between local environmental groups and the Environmental Protection Agency, which previously attempted to clean the site in the 1990s.
The United Heckathorn Superfund Site spans 5 acres of land and 15 acres of marine sediments in Richmond Harbor’s Lauritzen Channel and Parr Canal. It was contaminated between 1947 and 1966 when multiple companies made, packaged and shipped pesticides in the area.
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