Background

The Sangamo Weston, Inc./Twelve-Mile Creek/Lake Hartwell PCB Contamination Superfund site is located in Pickens, South Carolina.  Residential land uses and undeveloped land surround the site. As a result of a merger, Sangamo Weston, Inc. became Schlumberger Technology Corporation. In 1999, Schlumberger Technology Corporation donated part of the site property to the City of Pickens.

From 1955 until 1987, Sangamo Weston, Inc. operated a capacitor manufacturing plant at the site. Operations disposed of wastes at six areas near the plant and discharged wastewater into Town Creek, a tributary of Twelve Mile Creek which is a major tributary of Lake Hartwell.

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