The LCP Chemicals Superfund Site is located between the Turtle River and New Jesup Highway, just northwest of the Brunswick city limits. The northern boundary of the site runs along Blythe Island Highway and the southern boundary meets with the property line of the active Georgia Pacific Pulp and Paper Mill. 

 

The 813-acre site has a long history of industrial activity from the 1920s through 1994, including an oil refinery, coal-fired power plant, and both chemical and paint/varnish manufacturing plants (see the timeline below). Past activities contaminated soil, groundwater, and adjacent surface waters and marshlands until operations ceased in 1994. 

 

These industries polluted the site with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, lead, dioxins, and cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs). Large amounts of contaminants are still present at the site and remediation efforts are ongoing. Due to the complexity and size of the site, the cleanup is being managed in three parts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): the estuary and salt marsh; the cell buildings area and groundwater (this action); and the upland soils and sediments where industrial activities took place.

 

Currently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting comments on the Interim Early Action Proposed Plan to address Mercury contamination in the groundwater at the site below the former Cell Buildings Area. Submit comments today in this critical decision-making steps at one of Georgia's largest Superfund Sites.