BEFORE
The former Goldberg Brothers Scrap Metal yard stretched 10.8 acres along the perimeter of Hyde Park, abutting several backyards. In 1998, the scrap yard looked like this:
DURING
During cleanup, contractors found rusty drums of mercury in the scrap yard office:
In an almost unprecedented cooperative effort, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division removed 20,000 tons of surface waste, including 6,770 tons of miscellaneous debris, 12,000 tons of hazardous lead-contaminated soil, and 181 tons of mercury contaminated debris.
AFTER
The site is now clean of surface debris; however, it continues to pose a threat to the community -- recent studies found high levels of cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, zinc and PCBs throughout the area -- most likely this is run-off from the former scrap yard that is being disseminated throughout the community through storm water runoff and flooding.
