ECC AWARDED DUPONT CHAMBERS CONTRACT

Environmental Chemical Company announced yesterday that it has been awarded a contract from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program to help in the cleanup of the Dupont Chambers site in Deepwater, N.J. The cleanup involves mostly soil remediation of the former uranium refinement facility. “It’s not a simple just dig it up and go,” said Mark Kirshe, a director at ECC. “There are a lot of intricate shoring issues. It’s a complex removal project because of the slope conditions, the history of the chemical processes and systems, and its being an active industrial site. It’s not like an abandoned place… Dupont still produces 15 different chemicals.” ECC management is immediately moving the project forward with the project planning phase, Kirshe said, and it should begin removal by early 2014. The contract is worth between $13-14 million and is supposed to be completed by the end of 2015.