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Cheraw Community Meeting PCB Investigation November 2, 2016 Presentation Topics Why We Are Here To share how this started What we know so far Talk about next steps Get your input and thoughts How It Started 1963 1981 1981

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Cheraw Community Meeting

PCB Investigation November 2, 2016

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Presentation Topics

Why We Are Here

  • To share how this started
  • What we know so far
  • Talk about next steps
  • Get your input and thoughts
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How It Started

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1963

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1981 1981

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2015

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Sampled 2/2016 Results 4/2016

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What Happened Next

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8/2016

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Drainage Ditch

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More Sampling

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Area Map

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Huckleberry Park

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What Do the Results Tell Us?

  • Results and limited documentation suggest

PCB’s were in waste discharges that went directly to the ditch in the 1960’s.

  • Waste sludge was deposited into 6 drying

beds from about 1973 to about 1980. No data ever presented to show PCB’s were in the waste.

  • Sludge drying beds were excavated in 1989.
  • No evidence of PCB’s in any of this waste

until this investigation.

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What are PCBs

  • Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  • A group of 209 synthetic organic

chemicals

  • EPA Classifies PCB’s As a Probable Human

Carcinogen

  • A Residential Screening Level 1 ppm is

used to direct the investigation

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What are PCBs

  • No smell or taste
  • They adhere strongly to soil and sediment
  • Produced in US 1930-1979, then banned.
  • Very stable and persistent in the

environment

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Our Response So Far

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As of Today

  • Collected over 300 soil and sediment

samples

  • Notified property owners and local
  • fficials of findings by phone and mail
  • Notified Takata-Highland plant
  • Requested assistance of US EPA
  • The Town closed Huckleberry Park
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As Today

  • Scheduled this meeting
  • Sent letters to 95 property
  • wners/residents along the creek
  • Set up a web site for this area to keep you

informed: http://www.scdhec.gov/CherawPCBInvest igation

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Next Steps

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SC DHEC Goals: Next Few Weeks

  • Additional Sampling
  • Yards near Creek
  • Yards near Ponds
  • Sharing Information
  • Keep Web Site Updated
  • Property Owners
  • US EPA
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SC DHEC Goals: Next Few Months

  • Address the contamination in
  • Yards
  • Sediment
  • Park
  • Work With
  • USEPA
  • Responsible Parties

To develop appropriate clean up actions

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How You Can Help

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Ways to Help

  • Continue to stay
  • ut of Huckleberry

Park

  • Warn others to

avoid the park

  • Let us know if the

creek floods your yard

  • Avoid floodwaters

from creek

  • Do not disturb

contaminated soil

  • n your property
  • Information about

Burlington and its

  • perations during

the 1960’s and 1970’s

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JUDY CANOVA (803) 898-0816 LEIGH PLUMMER (Florence Office) (843) 661-4825

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Questions? Comments?