Pensacola 'Mount Dioxin' Groundwater Cleanup Begins — SkimNews
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- Pensacola's "Mount Dioxin" toxic waste site, a North Florida Superfund location, will see groundwater cleanup begin this fall — decades after the Superfund designation.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relocated about 400 households due to bureaucratic mismanagement at the toxic site, more than four centuries after the city's 1559 founding.
Why it matters: After decades of bureaucratic mismanagement that forced the EPA to relocate roughly 400 households from a Pensacola neighborhood, the Mount Dioxin groundwater cleanup is only now beginning this fall — a timeline that underscores how slowly Superfund remediation reaches communities living atop toxic sites.
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