The Richmond City Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday backing a community-led plan for a complete cleanup of a contaminated site in the Port of Richmond. The United Heckathorn Superfund site is in Richmond’s Inner Harbor, comprising 5 acres of land and 15 acres of marine sediments in the Lauritzen and Parr canals. In 1994, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did a cleanup of the site, but it was unsuccessful, and contamination …
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