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A 3 page overview of the budgeting constraints within which the Superfund has operated
for over a decade. Focusing on the Woolfolk Chemical Works Site in Fort Valley, Georgia, this paper details the cleanup efforts that are needed and emphasizes that even with recent funding those efforts can only partially be effected. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Woolfolk Chemical Works Site in Fort Valley, Georgia is one of 1,240 Superfund sites on the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) National Priority List (40 CFR Part 300 Appendix
B). The Woolfolk Site joins seventeen other sites in the state of Georgia alone. Located in Peach County, this site was first proposed on June 24, 1988 (EPA,
2004). It was placed on the National Priority List on August 30, 1990 (EPA, 2004). The site encompasses thirty-one acres contaminated during the production and processing of a
variety of chemicals (EPA, 2004). The produced, manufactured and processed at the site included pesticides, herbicides and insecticides (EPA, 2004). Lead arsenic contamination was extensive (EPA, 2004).
In all, the EPA found forty-eight contaminants that presented concern at Woolfolk (EPA, 2004). The EPA (2004) reports that chemical processing
at Woolfolk first started in 1910. The site came to the attention of the EPA via citizen complaints to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPA, 2004). Cleanup efforts
began but were limited by the dwindling funds which currently characterize the Superfund budget. Needless to say, the Georgians that lived in the proximity of Woolfolk, particularly those whose
properties were directly affected by the contamination, were delighted by the August 2004 news that $1.5 million had been awarded to clean up the site (McPhail, 2004). Even that
amount, however, is in reality insufficient. The total costs to clean up Woolfolk are estimated at over $20 million (McPhail, 2004). The current budget, however, will allow the
cleanup of "40 yards, 60 attics and the hauling away of soil that was contaminated mainly by arsenic" (McPhail, 2004). It is hoped that additional moneys will be allotted
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