Jacksonville residents told the Environmental
Protection Agency on Thursday that they'd rather place a hazardous waste
landfill on clean land away from the Vertac site than where passers-by might
see it. The landfill, which will hold soils contaminated with dioxins, could be
30 feet high. "In a worst-case scenario, it could be as high as 50
feet," said Doug Keilman, technical director of the Health and Environmental
Division for Hercules Inc. Hercules is a former owner and producer of such
herbicides as Agent Orange at the Vertac Chemical Corp. site in Jacksonville.
The site was declared a national Superfund site in 1982.
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