Show overview
Superfund has published 6 episodes during 2024. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 5 min and 6 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 2 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by seapotato.
From the publisher
Superfund is a United States federal environmental remediation program established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The program is designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Sites managed under this program are referred to as Superfund sites. This podcast aims to collect readings of the EPA's official narrative summary for every Superfund site on the National Priorities List, with minimum modification and no commentary. New episodes are posted every so often.
Latest Episodes
Interstate Lead Company
The Interstate Lead Company (ILCO) Superfund site is located in Leeds, Alabama. It includes the area where ILCO operated a secondary lead smelter and lead battery recycling facility from 1970 to 1992. The site also includes seven satellite sites located in and around Leeds, Alabama, where the company disposed of contaminated wastes from its main facility. https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.cleanup&id=0404344
Ciba Geigy Corp
The 1,500-acre Ciba-Geigy Corp. (McIntosh Plant) Superfund site is located about one mile Northeast of McIntosh on 1379 Ciba Road, Washington County, Alabama. The Site includes 1,130 acres of active plant facilities, as well as 170 acres of undeveloped cypress swamp and bottomland hardwood forest in the floodplain of the Tombigbee River. https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0400073#bkground
Anniston Army Depot
Anniston Ordnance Depot, which occupies approximately 30 square miles in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, was officially designated as an ammunition storage area on October 14, 1941. Over the years, operations were expanded to include the overhauling and repairing of combat vehicles and artillery equipment. The facility is currently referred to as the Anniston Army Depot (ANAD). Source: https://semspub.epa.gov/work/04/11121396.pdf
American Brass
American Brass, Inc. is located on State Highway 134 near Headland, Henry County, Alabama. American Brass, Inc. was a secondary brass facility (SIC 3341) that operated on a 140-acre site surrounded by agricultural land from 1977 until 1992. Source: https://semspub.epa.gov/work/04/11121379.pdf
Alabama Plating Company
The Alabama Plating Company, Inc. (APC) site is located approximately one mile northeast of Vincent, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 231 and County Highway 60, about 25 miles east-southeast of Birmingham, Alabama. Source: https://semspub.epa.gov/work/04/11121061.pdf
Alabama Army Ammunition Plant
The Alabama Army Ammunition Plant (AAAP) covers 5,168 acres just east of the Coosa River north of Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama. The U.S. Army terminated manufacturing operations in August 1945. The plant was in standby status until 1973, when it was declared excess property. Source: https://semspub.epa.gov/work/04/11121411.pdf