The Chlor-Alkali Superfund site looking southward. On the left is the capped cell house landfill separated from the Androscoggin River (at low flow) by the retaining wall. Liquid, elemental mercury, solid mercury amalgams, and mercury containing debris lie along the banks and riverbed from the rocky knoll where the person is standing, southward for approximately 250 feet. (EPA photo)
The Chlor-Alkali Superfund site looking southward. On the left is the capped cell house landfill separated from the Androscoggin River (at low flow) by the retaining wall. Liquid, elemental mercury, solid mercury amalgams, and mercury containing debris lie along the banks and riverbed from the rocky knoll where the person is standing, southward for approximately 250 feet. (EPA photo)
BERLIN — While the federal Environmental Protection Agency had hoped to begin the cleanup of the Chlor-Alkali Superfund site this month, Project Manager Darryl Luce said the agency is now looking at starting in the summer of 2022.
Luce said negotiations are still underway with the successors to the former owners and operators of the mill.
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