The ongoing effort to remove thousands of truck loads of toxic waste buried across town by the defunct Raymark Industries is now expected to cost around $140 million, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That figure is up from the $95 million the agency originally estimated seven years ago it would take to dig up and consolidate the polluted soil, Jim DiLorenzo, an environmental engineer who is leading the yearslong project, announced at a recent public meeting. As of July, the agency has spent $64 million to clean up nearly two dozen properties where Raymark, an automotive parts manufacturer, dumped waste decades ago contaminated with cancer-causing agents such as asbestos, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs. DiLorenzo said it will likely take up to an additional $40 million to complete the project. But he said the agency has already secured those funds as part of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law in 2021.
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