Superfund Site

Copper Basin Mining District

Toccoa Street, Hwy 68, Copperhill, TN 37317
National Priorities List: No
Status: Active
Copper Basin Mining District is a superfund site located at Toccoa Street, Hwy 68, Copperhill, TN 37317. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Copper Basin Mining District because they pose or had once posed a potential risk to human health and/or the environment due to contamination by one or more hazardous wastes. Copper Basin Mining District is currently registered as an Active superfund site by the EPA. However, it is not on the NPL (National Priorities List), which means the EPA does not consider it one of the nation's most hazardous waste sites.

Site Information For Copper Basin Mining District

EPA Region: 4
Site Status: Active
Federal Facility: No
NPL Status: Not on the NPL
Eligible Response Site (ERS) Exclusion: NR
Non-Status NPL: No
Incident Category: Mines/Tailings

Site Contaminants

Site contaminants are chemical substances found at a superfund site that may pose a risk to human health or the environment. The chemical substances Surface Water, Sediment and Fish Tissue were found at Copper Basin Mining District. These contaminants were present in ZINC, ZINC, PCBs, COPPER and PCBs.


Surface Water ZINC
Sediment ZINC, PCBs, COPPER
Fish Tissue PCBs
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