Superfund Site:

AMERICAN BRASS INC.
HEADLAND, AL

Superfund Site Profile

Site Contacts

Community Involvement Coordinator
Tonya Spencer-Harvey
[email protected]
(404) 562-8463

Remedial Project Manager
Nathaniel Ertep
[email protected]
(470) 512-1282

Site Location

Street Address:
HIGHWAY 134 WEST
HEADLAND, AL 36345

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Background

The 148-acre American Brass Inc. (ABI) Superfund site is located north of Dothan in Henry County, Alabama, on State Highway 134. The site includes a 24-acre area where ABI operated a secondary brass smelter and foundry between 1978 and 1992. ABI leased the site through the Henry County Industrial Development Board while operating. Soil and groundwater contamination occurred because of facility operations. 

Beginning in 1996, in cooperation with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency led the site investigation and cleanup activities. The EPA placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1999.

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