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EPA Announces the Record of Decision
for the Newtown Creek Superfund
Site in New York, New York
Th e U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a fi nal decision,
in a document called a Record of Decision (ROD), on April 12, 2021
addressing Operable Unit 2 (OU2) of the Newtown Creek Superfund site.
EPA’s fi nal decision for this discrete aspect of the site consists of No Further
Action, which for this site means no action to further address the volume of
combined sewer overfl ow (CSO) discharges to the creek beyond the anticipated
implementation of the Long-Term Control Plan (LTCP) for Newtown
Creek.
Outside of the Superfund process, as per the requirements of the Clean
Water Act, the City of New York is under order by the State of New York
to implement a CSO LTCP for Newtown Creek. Th e LTCP, which was
approved by the state in June 2018, includes a number of components to
reduce future CSO discharges to the creek, including constructing and
implementing a 39-million-gallon CSO storage tunnel. EPA has determined
that the CSO volume controls prescribed by the LTCP that the City of New
York is under order to implement are suffi cient to meet the needs of the
eventual Superfund cleanup for the Newtown Creek Superfund site.
Th e Administrative Record fi le containing the ROD and other site related
documents is available for public review at www.epa.gov/superfund/newtown
creek. For more information, please contact Natalie Loney at (212)
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637-3639 or loney.natalie@epa.gov.
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