Demolition begins at Lane Plating Works, an old electroplating facility that was deemed as a Superfund Site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in south Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.The Environmental Protection Agency has begun the demolition and excavation of Lane Plating Works, an electroplating facility that created highly toxic chemical waste in a southern Dallas neighborhood, on Thursday.
Lane Plating Works closed in 2015 due to violations, investigations and bankruptcy filings, leaving behind tons of liquid plating wastes, and in 2018 it became a Superfund site, a contaminated area designated by the EPA for cleanup due to. About 188,000 pounds of material waste was cleaned up since 2018, according to the EPA. Even then, those who entered the building, near the Arden Terrace neighborhood, would be exposed to high levels of hexavalent chromium dust.
Temeckia Derrough, District 7 member of the city’s environmental commission, who grew up in the community and now resides in Joppa, is grateful for the change. Derrough said that homeless people would often enter the Lane Plating building to seek shelter and unknowingly expose themselves to toxic chemicals. This was a major reason the building had to come down, she said.
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