Excerpt from WilmingtonBiz, March 29, 2018. Read the full article here.
Discussions about remediation and potential redevelopment of the Navassa Superfund site will be the topic of an upcoming public meeting with federal and state environmental officials.
An environmental investigation of the site, also called the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. site, is ongoing, according to EPA officials. The property was a creosote-based wood treating facility from 1936 until 1974.
These days, the 245-acre site holds the potential for remediation and redevelopment into a property that could add tax base and possibly jobs to the small Brunswick County town of Navassa, which has a population of about 1,800.
The EPA, along with representatives of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) and Multistate Environmental Response Trust (Multistate Trust), will be on hand for a public meeting April 10 on what the future could hold for the site, according to an EPA news release.
The Multistate Trust acquired part of the property in a bankruptcy settlement with Tronox, a spinoff of Kerr-McGee, that filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
Multistate Trust took ownership of the Navassa site and 400 other contaminated properties in the nation, under a court-approved agreement between the federal government, 22 states and Tronox, according to the organization.
Multistate Trust is working with its EPA and NCDEQ beneficiaries on site investigation, remediation and redevelopment planning. Those topics, as well as an upcoming feasibility study of possible remediation options at the site, will be the focus of the meeting.