Would you live on a former Superfund site?

[DCal430]

They are cleaning up Superfund sites here and plan to build residential homes on them. Would you be willing to buy and live in a home that sites on what was once basically a toxic waste dump.

 

[lxskllr]

No. I couldn't even trust food grown in the ground there.

 

[BoomerD]

Fuck no. I did HAZMAT clean up on a couple of sites in the SF Bay area that are now residential sites. One of them, in Union City, we called "Love Canal West" because it was so heavily polluted when we started. Another, IIRC, in Colma, was so heavily contaminated, that we had to send several hundred truck-loads of the topsoil to the big HAZMAT dump at Kettleman City...then covered up the rest with clean topsoil. 🙄
They built homes that started for just under $1 Million on the land.

 

[Anubis]

whats a superfund site?

im not googleing

 

[IronWing]

Sure. By the time a superfund site gets greenlighted for residential development it is most likely cleaner than anywhere else in the vicinity.

 

[BoomerD]

Sure. By the time a superfund site gets greenlighted for residential development it is most likely cleaner than anywhere else in the vicinity.

I doubt it...the worst of the contamination may be removed...or else it's just buried under a few feet of clean soil.

 

[Jumpem]

I doubt it...the worst of the contamination may be removed...or else it's just buried under a few feet of clean soil.

This. Around here they seem to remove the top layer, and cap the rest.

 

[FoBoT]

they should have just nuked it from orbit to begin with

i'd be worried about resale value mostly. you have to find a buyer that isn't worried about it either
actually living there, no problem

 

[Bignate603]

It depends why it was a superfund site. There's one nearby that's a superfund site because it had some underground tanks and pipes leak jet fuel. The contamination is deep and going deeper. It's fine on the surface but they're worried that the fuel will seep into the ground water.