centre county kepone

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The 32-acre Centre County Kepone site, located in State College, Pennsylvania, was a chemical manufacturing facility. The facility produced the pesticide kepone in 1958, 1959 and 1963, and the pesticide mirex in 1973 and 1974. All chemical manufacturing operations at the facility ceased in March of 2004. Process wastes originally were disposed of on site; in a spray irrigation field, a concrete lagoon, two other earthen lagoons, and also stored in drums on-site. After leaks were discovered, the material in the lagoons was solidified and disposed of in the two earthen lagoons and capped. It was later discovered however, the waste material had failed to solidify leading to hazardous materials leaching into the groundwater and surface water. Approximately 2,100 people live within a one-mile radius of the site. The closest residence is less than a quarter mile from the site. In 1982, a section of the adjacent Spring Creek was designated as a catch and release zone for fishing as a result of high levels of pesticides in fish. In 2001, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania determined that the catch and release regulation was no longer required for contamination reasons.

Hazardous Ranking Score

45 / 100

A score of 28.5 or higher qualifies a site for the Superfund National Priority List.

Regional Contact

Region 3
Within the region: (800) 438-2474
Outside the region: (215) 814-5000

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Discovery
Site Inspection
Preliminary Assessment
Final Listing On NPL
Removal

Contaminants & Health Effects

      Carcinogen
      Endocrine Disrupter
      Neurotoxic
      Sensitiser
      Reproductive Toxin
      Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
      VOC
      Mutagen

        Census

        White
        African American
        Asian
        American Indian and Alaska Native
        Native Hawaiian
        Other

        2,465

        People living
        within a 1 mile radius

        $55,145

        Average Income

        986

        Occupied homes

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