Background

The 8-acre Elmore Waste Disposal Superfund site is in Greer, South Carolina. The site includes an area used for drum disposal from 1975 to 1977. From 1975 until 1977, the property owner placed between 150 and 300 drums containing liquid wastes and a 6,000-gallon, partially buried tank containing contaminated waste oil on the site.

EPA placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1989 because of contaminated groundwater and soil resulting from waste handling practices at the site.

Currently, a laundry mat operates on part of the site. The site supports commercial and industrial land uses.

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