High priority environmental demolition about to start…three years late.
The company responsible for demolishing the PCB-laden Aerovox mill in Massachusetts is about a month away from signing a settlement agreement with city, state and federal environmental officials, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The agreement will pave the way for the long-awaited demolition of the mill, which the EPA first announced as a priority in June 2006. For more than a year, the EPA, state Department of Environmental Protection and city of New Bedford have been negotiating with the potentially responsible party, AVX Corp. of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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