Excerpt from the Brunswick Beacon, November 13, 2018. Read full article here.
by Brian Slattery
NAVASSA — While there is still work to be done to prepare the Navassa Superfund site for redevelopment, town officials learned Nov. 8 they could start work on rezoning the location to insure the development they want comes there.
Superfund site officials said they are still testing 368 soil samples and 53 monitoring wells, but a clear idea of what could be used for new development is coming into focus.
From the 1930s to the 1970s, a creosote wood-treatment plant was run on the 250-acre site east of Navassa which is bordered on the west side by Navassa Road, by Sturgeon Creek to the south and the Brunswick River to the east.
Town board members and residents attending the meeting were told there are 100 acres on the east side of the property that could be kept out of the superfund site cleanup.
No creosote was found there, said Richard Elliott, project manager for the Multistate Environmental Response Trust, one of three groups heading up the cleanup process.
The Multistate Trust, the Environmental Protection Agency and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are working to determine cleanup options for the site.