Superfund Site

Rumsey Tailings

Philipsburgh, Philipsburgh, MT 59858
National Priorities List: No
Status: Active
Rumsey Tailings is a superfund site located at Philipsburgh, Philipsburgh, MT 59858. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Rumsey Tailings 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. Rumsey Tailings 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 Rumsey Tailings

EPA Region: 8
Site Status: Active
Federal Facility: No
NPL Status: Not on the NPL
Eligible Response Site (ERS) Exclusion: NR
Non-Status NPL: No
Incident Category: Not Reported

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 and Solid Waste were found at Rumsey Tailings. These contaminants were present in MERCURY and MERCURY.


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