RELATED: EPA completes Superfund cleanup of lead-contaminated park in Miami Twp.
The Superfund project that helped keep the 7.5-acre park on Cordell Drive off limits from April 2016 until earlier this month involved the removal of about 5,724 tons of soil, including some taken from a home whose samples showed high concentrations of lead, according to the EPA.
The soil totals are about 1,000 tons fewer than initially projected.
RELATED: EPA starting massive removal of lead-contaminated park soil
The site was cordoned off in April 2016. An Ohio EPA official said high lead levels in soil at the park were initially discovered three years earlier but overlooked in what Michael Proffitt, the chief of the Ohio EPA’s division of environmental response and revitalization, called “a big mistake.”
The state asked the federal agency to assist. Soil in the yards of more than two dozen homes surrounding the park were tested, with only one property showing above acceptable readings, records show.
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The park is now open to walkers, although the gates are still closed with signs posted indicating a spring 2018 opening, according to Miami Twp. Public Works Director Dan Mayberry.
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