3/26/2021 - CONSENT DECREE: REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION - The Anniston PCB site is located in and around Anniston and parts of Calhoun and Talledega County about 50 miles east of Birmingham, Alabama. The Anniston site includes commercial, industrial and residential properties and downstream waterways and floodplains. Site investigations show that the former Monsanto Corporation's PCB manufacturing plant released the vast majority of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the area. The plant produced PCBs from 1929 until 1971. During the time Monsanto operated the plant, hazardous and non?hazardous wastes were disposed in several areas, including the West End and South Landfills that are adjacent to the plant and a wastewater stream containing PCBs that flowed into Snow Creek and Choccolocco Creek. The Record of Decision for Operable Unit 1 (OU-1, residential) and Operable Unit 2 (OU-2, nonresidential) work that is the subject of this Consent Decree presents the EPA?s selected cleanup alternatives, which reduce risk to human health and the environment to acceptable levels by:
1. Completing the residential property cleanup and managing subsurface contamination as needed;
2. Completing the cleanup of low activity areas on church, school, and park properties and managing subsurface contamination as needed;
3. Excavating soils that were not included in previous interim measures;
4. Removing dredged soil piles along the bank of Snow Creek;
5. Excavating soils that create ris