After decades, the EPA still doesn’t have a plan to clean watersheds at one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, grantee finds

At the annual Tar Creek Conference organized by the nonprofit LEAD Agency in October, researcher M’Kenzie Dorman shared before-and-after photos from the Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds’ (CREW) water treatment systems. / David Steele

At one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to publish a plan that is required to clean areas where rain and other water is collected. A five-month investigation by the nonprofit outlet Streetlight, supported by the Fund, found that engineers who have devoted their careers to remediation of Tar Creek in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, have expressed frustration at the lack of a plan.