FORT HARTFORD COAL CO. STONE QUARRY
OLATON, KY
Superfund Site Profile
Site Contacts
Community Involvement Coordinator
Angela Miller
[email protected]
(404) 562-8561
Remedial Project Manager
Peter Thorpe
[email protected]
(404) 562-9688
Site Location
Street Address:1881 Underwood RD
OLATON, KY 42361
Background
The 850-acre Fort Hartford Coal Company Stone Quarry Superfund Site is located 1.25 miles northwest of Olaton, Kentucky. It includes the area where Fort Hartford Coal Company operated a limestone mine and then a storage facility for salt cake fines (SCFs) from the late 1950s to 1991.
The EPA placed the site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL) in 1990 because of contaminated air, groundwater and surface water resulting from storage operations.
The EPA, the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection (KDEP) and Commonwealth Aluminum Concast, Inc., the site’s potentially responsible party (PRP), have investigated site conditions ...
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