环保署在印第安纳州 Muncie 启动铅污染清理：前蓄电池厂旧址土壤将挖除换新
美国环保署11月12日宣布，已开始清理位于印第安纳州 Muncie 市西8街3005号的前 Stout 蓄电池厂旧址及周边两处住宅物业的铅污染土壤，清理预计于明年春季完成。
清理期间，环保署将以围栏封闭场地，挖除铅污染土壤并送往环保署批准的设施处置，随后回填干净土壤、恢复景观与草坪；整个清理过程将开展空气监测，确保粉尘不飘出场地。
该厂于1968年至1984年间生产汽车铅酸蓄电池，在硫酸浴中为电池充电并用水冲洗，冲洗水排入厂内无许可、无衬里的蓄水池，造成土壤铅污染。印第安纳州棕地计划在2023年至2025年初的采样中发现污染，州政府将场地移交环保署进一步评估与清除；环保署对场地及周边九处住宅物业采样后，确认场地与其中两处住宅的土壤存在铅污染。
（来源：美国环保署）
EPA Begins Lead Cleanup at Former Battery Plant Site in Muncie, Indiana
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 12 that it has begun cleaning up lead-contaminated soil at the former Stout Storage Battery site at 3005 W. 8th St. and at two residential properties in Muncie, Indiana, with the cleanup expected to be complete by spring.
During the cleanup, EPA will secure the site with a fence, excavate the lead-contaminated soil for disposal at an EPA-approved facility, backfill excavated areas with clean soil, and restore landscaping and grass. Air monitoring will run throughout to ensure dust does not leave the site.
From 1968 through 1984, the Stout Storage Battery Corp. manufactured automotive lead-acid batteries at the site, charging batteries in a sulfuric acid bath and rinsing them with water that was discharged into unlicensed, unlined impoundments onsite, contaminating the soil with lead. The Indiana Brownfields Program discovered the contamination in sampling from 2023 through early 2025 and referred the site to EPA, whose sampling of the site and nine surrounding residential properties confirmed lead contamination at the site and two homes.
(Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
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