The Bennington land site fill can be found off the
Houghton land in Bennington United States of America. The site served as a
dumping area for most industries around it for almost 6 years between 1969 and
1975. Due to this dumping of dangerous waste from industries, the passage of
water through underground level drainage system got contaminated.
This posed a threat to most of the rural inhabitants
of Bennington as most of them had dug well in their houses. The site of the
land fills included lead and other deadly and poisonous compounds from the
toxic waste poured on the land.
However, the approach to clean up the site was focused
on two different phases. The first was a process called the NTCRA (Non Time
Critical Removal Action) this process involved the close fitting of the surface
of the Landfill site, the deviation of both ground and surface water and finally,
the removal and cleaning of the toxic wastes. Although the second phase was
just to make sure that the removal of waste was no longer needed again I.E.
first phase.
The E.P.A responded to the Bennington Landfill site in
1994 with an interim idea of reducing the bringing in of anything that can
infect the landfill site and the underground water beneath it. However earlier
in 1991, a team accessed the amount at which the landfill was contaminated and
how dangerous it could be to the people around it.
In final attempts to rid this area of toxic waste
chemical from the landfill site, a multi barrier cover was placed over the
whole Bennington site landfill to make it safer. Also in 1998, the E.P.A signed
and agreed that not further steps should be made on the site since all
necessary steps have been taken to ensure safety. However, an inspection of the
Bennington site takes places every 5 years to ensure safety.
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