Excerpt from the Cushing Citizen/Cimarron Valley Weekender, February 19, 2022. Read the full article here.
by DeAnna Maddox
A clean up project to return the Tronox/Kerr-McGee refinery site to industrial reuse as well as protect human and environmental health is slated to have a finalized design established this year, according to reports from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
“Remedial construction was initiated in October 2020 with excavation commencing in January 2021 and is currently projected to continue through March 2022,” reported the Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust, LLC in a representative capacity as a Trustee of the Multistate Environmental Response Trust.
According to the report, significant weather and rain in the winter and spring of 2021 affected the construction schedule. The report also stated the Multistate Trust received approval from DEQ of the final remedy for groundwater at the project site. Pre-design investigations, design, and implementation of the final groundwater remedy will be conducted following the completion of the current waste and soil removal.