The plan may still change, but the agency hopes using dirt will allow contractors working for the EPA to extinguish the fire without endangering nearby waterways like Big Black Creek, a Cahaba River tributary.
“We have kind of a preliminary plan but you know, once we start moving and actively trying to put out the fire, we may amend the plan,” he said.Stilman said EPA’s goal is not just to extinguish the fire, but to reduce the amount of smoke being released as quickly as possible. To that end, he said the agency is installing additional air monitors in the area.
“You can tell there’s been a lot of dirt already moved around,” Batemon said. “I don’t know exactly about the process, but the company that’s doing this has put out several of these landfill fires, and they they don’t seem to think there’ll be any problem.” “EPA has national contracts with environmental companies on the technical side and on the cleanup side,” Stilman said. “These contracts are multi-year contracts. And we have that because in situations like this, going through the whole contract selection process for each individual site would take a great deal of time.
Batemon said he’s pleased with the EPA’s response so far, but not that it took so long to get the federal agency to the site.
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