Number of Closed Landfills: 2
Number of Hazardous Waste Sites: 48
Number of Oil and Chemical Spills Reported in 1998:43
Number of Potential EPA Superfund Sites: 16*
Number of Hazardous Waste Facilities: 4
Number of Permitted Air Polluters: 49
above data (except *) collected from: Toxins in Connecticut
*The following contamination sites in Cheshire have been considered for the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Program, established by Congress in 1980 to locate, investigate, and clean-up the worst hazardous waste sites nationwide
NEW (April 2, 2007)
- We added a column for LEAD AGENCY currently responsible for each site (per list provided by CT DEP in 2006).
- We added a link to Google maps for each site and surrounding community
- For comprehensive Cheshire town map with all sites below identified, see here. Click here for key to the map.
|
# |
SITE NAME (follow each link for EPA online site summary) |
ADDRESS (click map link beside each address for Google map of
site and surrounding community) |
EPA SITE # |
LEAD AGENCY |
EPA
STATUS (?) |
|
1 |
150
KNOTTER DRIVE (see map) |
CTD061358792 |
DEP |
SAND |
|
|
2 |
300 EAST JOHNSON AVENUE
(see map) |
CTD098186042 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
3 |
WILLOW STREET
(see map) |
CTD981069016 |
EPA |
RCRA |
|
|
4 |
830 SOUTH MAIN STREET
(see map) |
CTD001179316 |
EPA |
RCRA |
|
|
5 |
340 INDUSTRIAL AVENUE
(see map) |
CTD001166354 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
6 |
604 WEST JOHNSON AVENUE
(see map) |
CTD981067317 |
EPA |
NPL |
|
|
7 |
WATERBURY ROAD |
CTD980524623 |
DEP |
SAND |
|
|
8 |
340 EAST JOHNSON AVENUE
(see map) |
CTD981204217 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
9 |
30 KNOTTER DRIVE
(see map) |
CTD001164334 |
DEP |
RCRA |
|
| 10 |
1425 HIGHLAND AVE (see map) |
CTD054476973 | EPA |
RCRA |
|
|
11 |
350 KNOTTER DRIVE
(see map) |
CTD980916779 |
EPA |
RCRA |
|
|
12 |
328 INDUSTRIAL AVENUE
(see map) |
CTD064842982 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
13 |
286 SANDBANK ROAD
(see map) |
CTD001159383 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
14 |
1074 SOUTH MAIN STREET
(see map) |
CTD981204209 |
EPA |
SAND |
|
|
15 |
1855
PECK LANE (see map) |
CTD044122083 |
DEP |
SAND |
|
|
16 |
250 KNOTTER DRIVE
(see map) |
CTD981211873 |
DEP |
????? |
|
|
17 |
264 SANDBANK ROAD
(see map) |
CTD981204142 |
EPA |
SAND |
According to the EPA,
Congress established the Superfund
Program in 1980 to locate, investigate, and clean up the worst hazardous
waste sites nationwide (see also Related reading).
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