Superfund Sites Near You-Kellogg-Deering Well Field, Connecticut

In Norwalk, Connecticut there lay a 10 acre well field that supplies approximately 50% of the drinking water to over 80,000 residents of the city. The Kellogg-Deering Well Field was tested in 1975 by the Norwalk First Taxing District Water Department which found elevated levels of contaminates in the wells.

The environmental issue found in the water at the Kellogg-Deering Well Field is not an isolated incident. The Environmental Protection Agency has established a program called Superfund that offers financial assistance to help clean up sites such as the Kellogg-Deering Well Field. If toxic waste contaminates are found at a location, such as at the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund site, that location can be placed on the National Priorities List which determines what locations receive funding first. After a Superfund site has been cleaned up to a certain point, it can be removed from the National Priorities List and turned over to local governments. New Superfund sites are often added to the National Priorities List as old sites are removed. More details can be found about the Superfund program at Wikipedia.org or just click here.

At the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund site, Volatile Organic Compounds were found in the ground water as well as the soil. Volatile Organic Compounds can vaporize and enter the atmosphere so that even walking in the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund area can be hazardous to a person's health. More about Volatile Organic Compounds can be found at Wikipedia.org or just click here.

To remove some of the health hazards at the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund site, aerators have been placed at the wells to remove the Volatile Organic Compounds from the water. The treated water is then sent to a water treatment plant at the Kellogg-Deering Well Field before being distributed to the residential community.

In 2007 the site owner of the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund site began demolishing buildings in preparation for a potential sale to parties interested in the site. However, clean-up at the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund site is still ongoing and requires further testing to properly establish if the area is safe for reuse. A review of the challenges involved with allowing the Kellogg-Deering Well Field Superfund area to be reused can be found at Epa.gov or you can just click here.

The clean-up of a Superfund site such as the Kellogg-Deering Well Field is not a quick process and decades can pass before waste removal is completed.