Clinch River Corporation Site
by Paul Mashburn
Title
Clinch River Corporation Site
Artist
Paul Mashburn
Medium
Photograph - Hdr Photography
Description
The Clinch River Corporation site consists of approximately 30.5 acres and is located on the banks of the Emory River/Watts Bar Reservoir in Harriman, Tennessee. The Clinch River Corporation site operated as a pulp and paper mill from 1929 until 2002 under various management companies.
Byproducts of the manufacturing process include spent processing liquids (black liquor), coal tar constituents (polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs), and piles of wastepaper.
The state of Tennessee referred the site to the EPA to allow for a comprehensive cleanup to address all the human health and environmental risks posed by the site. Other federal and state cleanup programs were evaluated, but are not viable at this time. The EPA received a letter of support for placing this site on the NPL from the state.
The site is now under a 7-year Superfund program to finally clean up the entire site. These first two years have shown some good progress, so I hope the work continues
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February 16th, 2014
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