A History: the Chem-Dyne Superfund Site

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• Crossing
  June 4th, 2023 Page A11 Important Quotes: “’Everyone’s already struggling, working every day to even put food on the table because of the prices of everything… You can’t even financially breathe. I would hate to see anyone not be able to afford (to live in the neighborhood).”
• Chem-Dyne (2022)
  February 1st, 2022 Page A5 Important Quotes: “Despite the pollution… Hamilton would have little liability in purchasing it.”
• Hamilton to buy part of Chem-Dyne site
  February 1st, 2022 Page 1 Important Quotes: “City officials have said they can use the property for either a park or playfields, or a parking lot. Housing will not be allowed on it because of pollution there.”
• Chem-Dyne
  December 11th, 2021 Page A3 Important Quotes: “The property’s location was especially concerning because it sits above the Great Miami Aquifer, a giant source of groundwater that holds 1.5 trillion gallons of water and provides drinking water for 3 million consumers.”
• Hamilton may buy Superfund site
  December 11th, 2021 Page A1 Important Quotes: “why would Hamilton city government, which battled in court for a cleanup, now want to buy part of the site? To make sure someone else doesn’t buy it and do something irresponsible, City Manager Joshua Smith said in an interview.”
• Spending
  August 13th, 2021 Page B4 Important Quotes: “He proposed putting $7 million toward North Hamilton Crossing, the proposed bridge across the Great Miami River near the Black Street Bridge that would also cross the CSX railroad tracks near the polluted former Chem Dyne property.”
• EPA Begins Review of Chem-Dyne Superfund Site
  June 21st, 2010 Page 4 Important Quotes: “The ground water was contaminated with volatile organic compounds and the soil with VOCs, pesticides, other organic compounds and heavy metals including mercury, arsenic, nickel and beryllium. The buildings were contaminated with PCBs.”
• Community Voice (2008)
  February 18th, 2008 Page 7 Important Quotes: “It is becoming more and more common to (see) 40- and 30-year-old passing away in Hamilton. It is not rare anymore; it is becoming the norm.” “we wonder when you start to see more people in their 40s pass away than people in their 70s and 80s. What is happening in Hamilton? Is it Chem-Dyne? Fernald?”
• Public Notices
  January 23rd, 2006 Page C4
• Community Voice
  November 17th, 2004 Page 11 Important Quotes: “There are quite a few people in Hamilton getting boils on their faces and bodies. We are wondering if there is something in Mosler, where they are digging that up, or Chem-Dyne? I am getting very concerned as many people are getting them.”
• Attorney General seeks Chem-Dyne information
  September 15th, 1977 Page 14 Important Quotes: “The statement asks lawyers and of the firm to supply detailed information about Chem-Dyne’s works, products, officials, methods of disposal, locations of disposal and about any emission permits it now has.”
• Another fish kill, EPA taking aim at Skinner dump
  August 22nd, 1977 Page 11 Important Quotes: “The fish kill is the first brought to public attention since last year.”
• Chem-Dyne update Sunday
  April 30th, 1977 Page 1
• Chem-Dyne denies agreement to haul away Kentucky chemicals
  April 25th, 1977 Page 13 Important Quotes: “Kovacs said today that many questions have to be resolved before his company would undertake the job.”
• Firm sues city
  February 5th, 1977 Page 3
• Chem-Dyne seeking specifics from city
  November 22nd, 1976 Page 13
• Fifth fish kill found in river
  November 9th, 1976 Page 7 Important Quotes: “preliminary investigations revealed some chemicals resembling ‘phenols’ were present in the river.”
• Salesman
  October 28th-Nov 1st Page 28, 39, 29, 19, 29 *Interesting for Chem-Dyne to be hiring while actively being prosecuted
• Who protects you against dangerous industrial practices?”
  October 24th, 1976 Page A5 Important Quotes: “Although nearly every state and local agency has at least limited ‘watchdog’ function over businesses in the area, it is the citizen who provides the key to unlocking the door to discovery of illegal company acts.”
• Fish kills ‘critical setback’ to Hamilton, river
  October 17th, 1976 Page A5
• City names Chem-Dyne in counter-suit action
  October 15th, 1976 Page 7 October 15th, 1976 Page 7 Important Quotes: “A counter-claim seeing a permanent injunction to stop Chem-Dyne Corp., 500 Ford Blvd., from violating the zoning and building codes of the City of Hamilton.”
• Chem-Dyne injunction extended for two weeks
  October 14th, 1976 Page 12 Important Quotes: “In extending the order prohibiting pollution of the Great Miami River, Judge Marrs ruled the plaintiff s had presented at a hearing Tuesday, ‘uncontroverted evidence’ of illegal acts of water pollution by the company and irreparable injury resulting from the toxic effect of the pollution.”
• Pollution case under court study
  October 13th, 1976 Page 11 Important Quotes: “Several possible sources of the pollution were eliminated and the fish kill led to an area below the Hamilton hydraulic canal.” “Pesticide residues will remain in the river at least until 1986 and will be present in the food chain for ‘many years to come.’”
• Testimony begins in Chem-Dyne case
  October 12th, 1976 Page 12 Important Quotes: “’It had to be a very, very toxic material or in very, very large amounts to cause that many fish to die’” -Ken M. Harsh (OEPA) “The companies are charged with causing or allowing pesticides to be placed ‘in a location where they caused pollution of the waters of the state’ 11 times between April 24 and Sept. 23, specifically into the Great Miami River and the Hamilton hydraulic canal.”
• A riverside happening
  October 2nd, 1976 Page 4 Important Quotes: “The Middletown Chamber of Commerce and the Middletown Jaycees are sponsoring a ‘fall festival down by the Great Miami River’ from noon until 6 p.m. Sunday.”