CERCLA Process
Cleaning up the Paducah site involves numerous decisions, which are captured in various types of decision documents. These documents reflect the binding agreement among DOE, the U.S. EPA, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Before cleanup in Paducah is completed, decisions will have been made on at least 30 significant projects.
Past decisions
- Northwest Plume Treatment System, 1993
- Water Policy (water extended to plant neighbors), 1994
- Treatment of contaminated plant effluent, 1994
- 3 related actions/contaminated sediments, mid-1990s
- 3 related actions/contaminated soils, mid-1990s
- Northwest Plume Treatment System, 1995
- Removal of PCB-contaminated soils, 1997
- TCE removal at contaminated soil site, 1998
- Removal of Drum Mountain, 2000
- Scrap Metal Removal, 2001
- Removal of contaminated ditch, 2002
- Removal of petroleum-contaminated soils, 2002
- Removal of contaminated storage tanks, 2002
- Removal of equipment from idled facility, 2002
- Removal of three idled facilities, 2005
- TCE removal at C-400 Cleaning Building, 2005
Future decisions
- Contaminated creeks and ditches, 2009
- Three facilities with contaminated soils, 2009
- Certain contaminated soils, 2009
- Contaminated soil/rubble piles, 2009
- Waste Disposal Evaluation, 2009
- Removal of unusable facilities, 2010
- Southwest Groundwater Plume, 2010
- Waste burial grounds, 2010
- Remaining contaminated soils, 2011
- Off-site groundwater plumes, 2015
