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B Later. The entrance to the old Iron Horse Park in North Billerica, Mass. Jenna Ebersol/NECIR)BOSTON In all his years as an attorney, Jan Schlichtmann has had few lawsuits so profoundly affect him as a 1.

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Woburn families and a public water supply contaminated by toxic chemicals. Profiled in numerous newspaper, television and radio accounts along with the movie “A Civil Action” starring John Travolta, the lawsuit became a watershed event in environmental politics for Massachusetts and the nation. Yet today, nearly 3. Woburn remain contaminated despite a $2. And no one, not even the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency which monitors the site as part of the federal Superfund program, knows whether humans are still being exposed to its witch’s brew of chemicals, federal records show.“Woburn made people see the profound health effects that can occur from contaminated sites,” says Schlichtmann, who settled the 1. The ugly truth is that the damage we do today will take a long time to fix.”Woburn isn’t alone when it comes to facing “the ugly truth” hidden in its soil and water.

Twenty five other Bay State communities, all home to Superfund sites, still live with a toxic legacy despite millions of dollars spent to clean them up. The entrance to the old Iron Horse Park in North Billerica, Mass. Jenna Ebersol/NECIR)From Cape Cod to the Berkshires and beyond, few communities are left untouched by the contamination.

With between 3,0. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and 4. Watch Hi-5 Online. They’re everywhere,” Eugene Benson, legal counsel and program director for Alternatives for Community and Environment, said of the many contaminated sites that dot the Massachusetts landscape. They range from sites that aren’t serious to sites that are very serious.

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Some of the worst and most extensive sites are on the Superfund list,” he notes, “but there still are some very bad sites, as far as contamination and the toxins, that are not on the Superfund list too.”Benson, whose organization works to achieve environmental justice for low income communities and communities of color, said DEP’s website offers a way for residents to check out toxic waste sites in their own community. The worst of those sites, the ones that pose an imminent health risk, rise to federal Superfund status, however. In Massachusetts, 3. According to EPA records, at least one- third of those sites may pose a health risk to people living and working nearby. At five of those locations, the risk of human exposure is noted in EPA cleanup impact profiles, all compiled since 2.

At some sites like New Bedford Harbor where PCB- contaminated seafood is a concern, the exposure risk is listed as “not under control,” meaning that human contact with pollutants is possible. At other sites, such as the Industri- Plex site in Woburn where cleanup is estimated to run up to $1. At six other state hot spots, there is insufficient data to determine the status of groundwater migration or human exposure to toxins, the EPA cleanup impact profiles found. Avoiding exposure is even more difficult at some toxic properties because there are no signs posted to warn of the contamination. Others, like Iron Horse Park in Billerica, are still open for business even though the EPA lists that location as one where human exposure is not yet under control. Watch Nowhere To Run HDQ. In towns like Wilmington, where toxic waste discovered in 1.

The EPA, which added the 5. Wilmington to its Superfund list in 2. Even parcels that have been on the list the longest, like the Baird and Mc. Guire chemical plant in Holbrook, ranked as the 1. Superfund roster in 1.

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Despite a cleanup effort estimated by the EPA to top more than $2. All that's left of Iron Horse Park is decaying building. Jenna Ebersol/NECIR)Yet it’s not just chemical companies that are running up the toxic tab. In a state where cleanup costs for commercial sites are estimated by the EPA to stretch beyond $1 billion, the biggest polluter may very well be the federal government.

With six military facilities on the Superfund list, the federal government also is linked to at least six other contaminated sites in Palmer, Lowell, Attleboro, Concord, Tyngsborough, and Bridgewater, according to confidential EPA records of the top 1. Center for Public Integrity. W. R. Grace ranks second with ties to seven sites in Woburn, Dartmouth, Acton, Lowell, Billerica, Bridgewater, and Tyngsborough, those same records show. The cost of cleaning up all those toxic minefields remains unclear. EPA says the “potential responsible parties” who often pay for the cleanup are not required to release cost figures.

Neither the EPA nor Department of Defense officials were able to produce cleanup figures for any of the six military facilities in Massachusetts. As toxic waste continues to percolate in groundwater and remediation costs soar into the stratosphere, it all seems like bad news to enviro- conscious activists like Taryn Hallweaver, the Eastern Massachusetts community organizer for the Toxics Action Center, a New England- based advocacy group.“We’ve got an industrial legacy like nowhere else in the country,” she says of the state’s toxic history, which stretches back to the 1. Industrial Revolution. It’s become a serious issue for Massachusetts. These sites just aren’t getting cleaned up.”A generation has already passed since the Woburn site and three others in Massachusetts landed on the EPA’s list of the 1. America. Created in 1.

New York’s Love Canal, Superfund, — formally known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act – is today comprised of more than 1,3. In Massachusetts, the four sites that made it onto the nation’s first Superfund list are still on it. Sixteen others, all added during the 1. A quarter of those 2. New Bedford Harbor, Fort Devens, Iron Horse Park in Billerica, and Woburn’s Industri- Plex site – still show signs of contamination nearly three decades after first being identified. In western Massachusetts, where PCS Resources, a waste oil refinery and solvent recovery plant in Palmer earned Superfund designation in 1. EPA study of the site found that 1,4- dioxane, a contaminant not previously assessed, may be present on that property.

Part of the reason behind the snail’s pace of cleanup is due to the lack of technology to quickly remove toxins from soil and groundwater. Cleaning up ground and water contamination is an arduous and cumbersome task that may take decades to complete, officials maintain. Site owners also force lengthy delays, challenging EPA decisions and balking at the cost of cleanup, creating a lull that can sometimes last for years. Yet, despite all the wrangling, EPA says it routinely collects 7. In 2. 00. 2, however, the agency faced perhaps its biggest challenge of all when Congress slashed the Superfund’s primary income source – a tax targeting industrial polluters that once generated about $1 billion annually. By the end of Fiscal 2. Today, appropriations are made by Congress, which last month proposed cutting $2.

Superfund budget in a cutback that would slash it from $1. Enforcement actions by the EPA supplement that budget, with responsible businesses paying for cleanup costs often under court ordered agreements, EPA officials say.

Still, the budget cuts have taken a toll. A precipitous scale- down of cleanup activity has cut mitigation by more than 5. Ed Hopkins, the director of environmental quality for the Washington, DC- based Sierra Club.“During the Clinton administration, roughly 8. In the last eight or nine years, that rate has fallen by half and more recently, it’s been even lower.”Yet despite that decline, state and federal officials – and even some environmentalists– are optimistic about our toxic fate. Toughened federal regulations and more public vigilance have helped curtail the creation of new Superfund sites, says Robert Cianciarulo, chief of the Massachusetts Superfund Section for EPA.