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EPA RETURNS TO NEWHALL STREET NEIGHBORHOOD IN HAMDEN, CT

Release Date: 04/09/2002
Contact Information: Alice Kaufman, EPA Community Affairs, (617) 918-1064

BOSTON – EPA New England begins this week to landscape residential properties where the agency had previously excavated lead-contaminated soils as part of a cleanup initiated late last summer. EPA will complete restoration of eleven homes where soil had been removed. EPA plans to reseed lawns, repair asphalt driveways and sidewalks, and clear and restore the area that was used by EPA as its community office. EPA will also excavate and remove a small area of surface soils in a backyard of a residential property.

Since work began nearly one year ago, EPA sampled more than 80 properties, removed 1,354 tons of contaminated dirt and replaced it with clean fill and a six-inch layer of topsoil.

EPA expects to work in the neighborhood for the next four to six weeks. Area residents are welcome to stop by the site trailer, located at the corner of Mill Rock Road and Winchester Ave. if they have any questions, or to contact Tito Irizarry, EPA's On-Scene Coordinator at his local office number: 203-777-4450.