State, county call on EPA to clean up leaking dump
By ALLISON BOURG Staff Writer
By ALLISON BOURG Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
10/12/07
Citing the potential for a devastating toxic chemical fire, county and state officials are calling on federal officials to clean up a Brooklyn Park warehouse where more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous waste are stored.
Robert Ballinger, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment, said this morning that his agency wants the warehouse and adjacent tank farm at the old Consolidated Pharmaceuticals property declared a Superfund site.
That could make millions of dollars in federal funds available for the property, located just off Interstate 895.
In a letter sent Monday to the Environmental Protection Agency,...
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