EPA orders wells that track flow at Koppers
Published: 07/13/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering a Pittsburgh-based company to drill wells to determine whether cancer-causing chemicals threaten Gainesville’s water supply. The company is responsible for cleaning the Koppers superfund site on NW 23rd Avenue.

Beazer’s plan for Koppers site is much too limited
Published: 06/26/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Dr. James Mercer, a consultant to Beazer East Inc. (the company responsible for cleaning up the Koppers Superfund site), gave his opinion that the contamination at the site poses no threat to the drinking water supply of the...

It’s all about the water
Published: 06/26/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
One hundred years ago, an editorial writer for The Gainesville Sun boasted that the taste and quality of the city’s water was "second to none in the South."

EPA: No Koppers cleanup promises
Published: 06/17/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Environmental Protection Agency officials said they were "committed" to Gainesville Regional Utilities’ plan to monitor the Koppers Superfund site following a meeting with the utility and Beazer East Inc., the company responsible for the site.

The straight story
Published: 06/10/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Gainesville Regional Utilities says that toxic wastes from the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site could reach the city’s drinking water well field within four to five years of entering the Floridan Aquifer.

Threat to city water seen in 4 years
Published: 06/09/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Toxic chemicals could, in the next four to five years, reach a well field that supplies Gainesville’s drinking water, according to a new report from Gainesville Regional Utilities.

City officials call water supply OK
Published: 02/05/03 in the Gainesville Sun.
They seek to reassure residents that toxins have not leached into the aquifer.

Polluted site threatens water supply
Published: 02/05/03 in the Gainesville Sun.
Toxic wood-treating chemicals from Cabot-Koppers in northwest Gainesville, a federally designated hazardous waste site, have leached within 35 feet of the Floridan Aquifer and could threaten the city’s underground drinking water supply, some...

What we don’t know
Published: 02/03/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
The pollution of Gainesville’s creek system is undergoing greater analysis to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

Study seeks to tie creek bacteria to its sources
Published: 01/30/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Her first instinct was to immerse herself in the problem. But when Robin Hallbourg learned the extent of sewage contamination in Gainesville’s urban streams, the Alachua County geologist thought better of it.

Cleanup firm: Koppers no threat to well water
Published: 01/19/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
A Pittsburgh-based environmental firm responsible for cleaning toxins beneath the Cabot-Koppers Superfund property has concluded that pollutants at the site pose no threat to Gainesville’s drinking water supply.

Don’t draw conclusions about Beazer’s remediation strategy
Published: 01/17/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
I wish to point out several distortions of fact in the comments made by government officials that Beazer East Inc., the company responsible for the environmental obligations on the Koppers portion of the Cabot Carbon/Koppers Superfund site, is not...

GRU says plans for Koppers fall short
Published: 01/08/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Proposals based on containing, rather than removing, toxins at the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site may not prevent some of the most dangerous chemicals on the property from reaching the wellfield that supplies most of the Gainesville’s drinking water,...

Quality of air and water are top issues in new year
Published: 01/01/05 in the Gainesville Sun.
Look for the usual suspects - and a few new faces - to dominate North Central Florida’s environmental calendar in 2005.

Waste Cleanup Site Fact Sheet - Spring/Summer 2005
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