AVX Agrees to Pay More Than $366 Million For New Bedford Cleanup in Massachusetts

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In the largest single-site cash settlement in the history of the superfund program, South Carolina-based AVX Corp, has agreed to pay $366.25 million plus interest to clean up the New Bedford Harbor super-fund site in Massachusetts, the Department of Justice announced Oct. 10 (United States v. AVX Corp., D.C. Mass., No. 83-3882, proposed consent decree filed 10/10/12), According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the New Bedford Harbor, a busy commercial seaport, is an 18,000-acre urban estuary with sediment highly contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metals. Two manufacturing facilities improperly disposed of industrial wastes containing PCBs from the 1940s until the 1970s, contaminating the harbor bottom for about six miles from the Acushnet River into Buzzards Bay, EPA said.