Source: NCDENR, 8/13/14
WHAT: Public meeting on restoration planning for contamination at former wood plant
WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday
WHERE: Navassa Community Center, 338 Main St., Navassa, N.C.
WHO: Hosting the public meeting are the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The public will have an opportunity Tuesday to provide federal and state agencies with feedback on a plan to restore the natural resources in a Brunswick County town where a wood treatment operation contaminated the nearby environment for several decades.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources are trustees acting on behalf of the public to develop and carry out a plan to restore the natural resources affected by the contamination as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration process.
The trustees are hosting the meeting so people can provide their ideas for restoring natural resources, which were impacted by four decades of contamination caused by chemicals that were used to treat the wood. The state and federal agencies developed a scoping document, which details the environmental impacts and options for restoring the area. The area was added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program in 2010. Funds from a $23 million settlement, which was part of one of the largest settlements of its kind in the nation’s history, will be used to restore the natural resources.
People can find the restoration scoping document at: http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/southeast/kerr-mcgee/pdf/KerrMcGee_ScopingDocument.pdf. Public comments will be accepted through Sept. 4.
For more information, please contact Howard Schnabolk, NOAA Habitat Restoration Specialist, at 843-740-1328; Kim Amendola, with NOAA, at 707-551-5707 or kim.Amendola@noaa.gov; Tom Mackenzie, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, at 404-679-7291 or tom_mackenzie@fws.gov ; or Jamie Kritzer with DENR, at 919-707-8602 or Jamie.Kritzer@ncdenr.gov.
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