The project manager for the Ponemah Mills development said Tuesday that four more locations have been identified as receiving contaminated soil excavated from the mill site. Phil Biondo told members of the Commission on the City Plan on Tuesday that in addition to the contaminated soil already found at a construction site in Franklin, the soil has also been found at sites in Preston and Jewett City and two in Norwich. He said One Key LLC, the New Jersey-based developer, is working with the state Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to remediate and dispose of the materials. In March, DEEP ordered One Key to stop removing soil from the site until it could determine whether the excavated material was contaminated, and where it was trucked to. Uncas Health District Director Patrick McCormack had written to the city saying he had asked a One Key representative at the site where the material was being stored on the property, where it was being taken and who removed it, but the representative didn’t know.
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