WAMCHEM, INC.
BURTON, SC
Superfund Site Profile
Site Contacts
Community Involvement Coordinator
Rosemarie Nelson
[email protected]
(404) 562-8728
Remedial Project Manager
SP Davis, Jr.
[email protected]
(404) 562-9463
Site Location
Street Address:US HWY 21 N OF AIR BASE
BURTON, SC 29902
Background
The 25-acre Wamchem, Incorporated Superfund site is in Beaufort, South Carolina. A residential property borders the site to the north. The Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort borders the site to the south. A salt marsh and McCalley’s Creek border the site to the east. U.S. Highway 21 borders the site to the west. McCalley’s Creek is used for recreational fishing and commercial shellfish harvesting.
It includes an area where a facility produced dye products from the 1950s to 1982.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1984 because of contaminated ...
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