Superfund Site

Yurok Mercury Spill

End Of Weitchpec School Road Yurok Tribal Nation, Weitchpec, CA 95548
National Priorities List: No
Status: Active
Yurok Mercury Spill is a superfund site located at End Of Weitchpec School Road Yurok Tribal Nation, Weitchpec, CA 95548. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Yurok Mercury Spill 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. Yurok Mercury Spill 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.