Superfund Site

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Hercules Inc. in Brunswick, pictured in 2004, is an active chemical processing plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identified the plant as a Superfund site because of contamination from toxic waste.

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Superfund Site

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