![]() ![]() Workers have installed a series of test wells, and they are still working to determine where the plume of contamination stops, she said. The most recent testing shows there also is a plume extending southwest, toward Greer, and the contamination has traveled beyond the Aqua-Tech property, she said. Jones said environmental workers expected the plume of contaminated ground water to extend southeastward on the property. The 1998 tests took a more in-depth look at Maple Creek, which runs through the site, and conditions on 120 acres of former Aqua-Tech land that surround the Superfund property. ![]() State environmental regulators closed the former hazardous waste treatment facility under an emergency order in 1991, and the 35 acres were added to the federal Superfund cleanup list in 1994. The greatest concentration of contamination is on 35 acres of the Aqua-Tech property, which borders Highway 290 between Greer and Duncan. "We're still getting new data," Jones said last week. Both of those factors created a need for additional tests and analysis - some of which are still under way. EPA guidelines for evaluating ecological risks were updated after the sampling began, she said, and contaminants in the ground water have traveled in a direction that officials didn't expect. A couple of factors combined to delay completion of the report, Jones said. Remedial Project Manager Yvonne Jones initially hoped to have a report for the public within the year. Environmental Protection Agency began soil and ground water tests on the Robinson Road property in May 1998. Environmental officials expect that next month they will share the results of more than two years of testing at the former Aqua-Tech Environmental hazardous waste dump. ![]()
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