An EPA cleanup of the Clearview landfill that is located in Darby Township and Southwest Philadelphia will get a funding assist from the infrastructure law President Biden signed last month, writes Sophia Schmidt for WHYY.

The Clearview landfill contains hazardous chemicals and is part of a Superfund site in Eastwick that will be cleaned up a year early because of the infrastructure funding.

“We are definitely elated because of the progress that we’ve been able to make,” said Earl Wilson, president of the Eastwick Friends and Neighbors Coalition. “We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

The law provides $1 billion to speed remediation of Superfund sites and clear out a backlog of 49 unfunded sites nationwide.

Of that, $38.7 million will go to three Pennsylvania sites, including a Lower Darby Creek site that includes the Clearview Landfill. 

Two landfills operated at the Lower Darby Creek site between the 1950s and 1970s, taking in municipal, demolition and hospital wastes. It contaminated soil, groundwater, and fish tissue.

Remediation was supposed to finish in 2024 or 2025. The new funds push the completion date to 2023.

Read more at WHYY about federal cleanup funds coming to the Clearview landfill.