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Georgia Starts First-Ever Superfund Research Center

In the city of Brunswick, residents such as Semona Holmes are sharing the concerns that come with living close to a dangerous Superfund site. The EPA has designated a former pesticide plant as a “contaminated former industrial site.”

According to the Georgia Recorder, the site has raised concerns for contamination, whether it be the locality’s air, soil, or water.

The site will now come under the scrutiny of Georgia’s first-ever “Superfund research center.” Six universities are collaborating on the center, which will operate with $15 million in funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences over a period of five years.

Georgia’s Emory University and Georgia Tech will join Texas Tech University, among others, in analyzing the locality’s four hazardous Superfund sites.

The concentration of sites is a rarity across the state.

The Daily Signal reached out to the EPA for comment regarding Brunswick’s Superfund sites, to which a spokesperson said regarding the Terry Creek Dredge Spoils/Hercules Outfall Superfund Site, “Toxaphene, a chlorinated pesticide, is the main contaminant of concern at this site. The remedial action to........

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