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Coffeyville Hazardous Waste Site


Name: Coffeyville Hazardous Waste Site
Category: Waste
Archive ID#: KS3132
 
Description: This hazardous waste management site is among the largest and most notorious in the nation. The hazardous chemical incinerator on site burned  the contaminated soil from Times Beach, Missouri, as well as PCBs and other chemicals from all over the nation. The Safety-Kleen company, the nations largest hazardous and industrial waste management company, acquired the site when it bought Aptus, a division of Rollins Environmental Services, which itself had acquired  the company from Westinghouse. Safety-Kleen closed the incinerator in 2001, but is continuing on site hazardous storage activities.
Location: 104 miles SE of Wichita, in Coffeyville
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Address: Coffeyville KS, 66737
Links: http://www.secinfo.com/dwDdf.44.htm
LCS: Dump / Landfill, Incinerator, Waste
   
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