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CANCELED: EPA Region 7 Invites Great Bend, Kansas, Community Members to Attend
Presentation About Plating Inc. Superfund Site
This site, on the National Priorities List, received funding from the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expedite cleanup
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 – 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa,
KS 66219
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations
LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 29, 2023) – Please note that this event has been
canceled. This presentation will be rescheduled as soon as EPA is able to do
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives from EPA Region 7
will present at the Great Bend, Kansas, City Council Meeting on Oct. 2, to
provide community members with information about the Plating Inc. Superfund
Site.
Over the next several months, EPA will be conducting cleanup work under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund. In April 2023, Plating Inc. was one of
three Superfund sites in Kansas on the National Priorities List (NPL) to
receive funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to begin or
expedite cleanup projects.
“In April, EPA Region 7 representatives traveled to Wichita to celebrate the
second round of funding for Superfund sites from the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law,” said EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister. “That funding is
now being put to work to clean up contamination in communities across our
nation’s heartland.”
The presentation will be held:
Monday, Oct. 2, 2023
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Great Bend City Hall
1209 Williams St.
Great Bend, KS 67530
Background
The Plating Inc. Superfund Site sits within the airport industrial area in
Barton County, Kansas, 1½ miles west of Great Bend. An inspection from the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) determined that 6,400
gallons of chromic acid was on-site in 2007, along with other acids and
hydroxides. The secondary containment was inadequate and chromic acid was
found to have discharged into the soil. A 2-mile-long groundwater plume of
hexavalent chromium has impacted domestic water wells and is moving toward
Great Bend’s public water supply wells.
EPA has selected remedial designs for addressing the soil and groundwater
contamination. The Agency anticipates that remedial actions – the
construction or implementation phase of site cleanup – will begin in fall
2023.
Learn more about the Plating Inc. Superfund Site.
Learn more about Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for Superfund sites.
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