Shpack Landfill cleaned up, removed from EPA National Priorities List

ATTLEBORO – The Shpack Landfill in Attleboro and Norton, Mass., has been removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, also known as Superfund, the EPA announced Wednesday.

The site, which served as a private landfill from 1946 to 1965, became contaminated with radioactive waste from the former M&C Nuclear Inc. of Attleboro.

The site had been on the NPL since 1986. The removal of the site from the NPL became effective Sept. 5.

The EPA and the state of Massachusetts concluded the appropriate Superfund-financed responses under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act have been implemented and no further cleanup is needed at the site. This means the site has achieved all of its response actions and completed all of its cleanup goals.

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The project included the removal of 83,400 cubic yards of soil and sediment, a wetland restoration, an extension of public water supplies to replace affected private water wells, and the implementation of controls to restrict the future use of the property and groundwater.

The site will be reviewed by the EPA every five years starting in 2018. The EPA also noted the wetland restoration still required monitoring.