Carlisle EPA Oversight Committee Sets April 22 Deadline for Cleanup Site Comments

CARLISLE — April 17, 2026 — Carlisle environmental oversight committee prepares comments on two EPA cleanup documents ahead of April 24 deadline. The committee, which monitors remediation of a contaminated site including a holding basin, landfill, and bog, divided writing assignments at its April 17 meeting, with a member identified as Ray drafting formal letters and member input due by April 22. The group expects to send only a brief acknowledgment on a completed in-situ stabilization report, but plans substantive questions on a soil and sediment work plan amendment covering new hotspot areas near the holding basin and bog. Member Len flagged sidewall sample values running "three or four times what the cleanup standard is" in at least two excavation areas, while member Ed was assigned to address site security during active trenching and the post-remediation condition of the sensitive bog corridor. Finance Committee member Carlene Reed, attending as a public observer, endorsed posting no-trespassing signs around the perimeter and suggested periodic video documentation of site progress for public trust-building.