The June 2025 monthly progress report for the Anniston PCB site is now available.
Choccolocco Creek
Pharmacia/Solutia (P/S) received a special notice letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) March 27, 2025, to resolve P/S’s responsibility for the Choccolocco Creek portion of the Anniston PCB site. This letter provides a 60-day negotiation period between P/S and the EPA regarding paying for work related to Choccolocco Creek cleanup actions.
P/S responded to this notice on June 13, 2025. This response included a good faith offer, a revised version of the draft consent decree and a revised version of the statement of work.
Eastman plant site
P/S submitted the following groundwater-related documents:
- 2024 Annual Groundwater Detection, Monitoring and Corrective Action Effectiveness Report. This report describes work done to test groundwater on the site, corrective action efforts that have been taken and records progress made during that year.
- Optimization Work Plan for Groundwater Corrective Action Systems and Monitoring Programs. This document noted that evaluations will be done on improvements made to the monitoring program, corrective action systems put in place, and whether cleanup goals identified in the Interim Record of Decision are done.
Logan Martin Lake
P/S submitted a Field Sampling Plan and Quality Assurance Project Plan to the EPA on June 25, 2025. These plans outline the actions that will be taken to collect data, including fish monitoring, to provide information about the nature and extent of contamination downstream of Choccolocco Creek.
Nonresidential
P/S are preparing an evaluation report for data collected during field investigations. This report will include information about land use, groundwater, soil and sediment.
This report will be submitted by July 2025.
Residential
P/S continue to clean up residential properties. Two cleanups were performed in spring 2025. A third is underway.