DOJ and EPA announce $50 million settlement to clean up Polk County Superfund site
From the mid-1800s until 1989, the Copper Basin Mining District Superfund Site was the location of extensive copper, iron, and sulfur mining operations, mineral processing, and sulfuric acid production. Throughout that time, wastes generated through those operations, which included sulfuric acid, lead, mercury, PCBs, and other contaminants, were disposed of in, on, and around Davis Mill Creek and North Potato Creek, both of which discharge to the Ocoee River.
