Largest U.S. Solar Farm On Superfund Site Is Online

[eridani]

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2014/04/largest-us-solar-farm-on-superfund-site-is-online?et_cid=3891992&et_rid=54679148&location=top

The 43-acre Maywood Solar Farm went online last month, with more than 36,000 solar panels feeding 8 megawatts of electricity into Indianapolis Power & Light's power grid.

The solar farm is the largest built to date on a Superfund site, said Environmental Protection Agency spokesman Francisco Arcaute. The next largest is a 40-acre, 6-megawatt solar farm near Rancho Cordova, Calif.

EPA Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman said in a statement that the Indianapolis solar farm "has transformed a site with a long history of contamination into a source of renewable energy for the future."

The agency is encouraging the development of solar, wind and other renewable energy projects on tainted sites. As of last fall, 85 such projects were generating a combined 507 megawatts of power at Superfund sites, landfills and mine sites across the nation.

[Sherman A1]

1. K&R

[lonestarnot]

2. What protection is provided to the builders of the farms on superfund sites? Do they wear

protective clothing or take any precautions that other construction workers wouldn't?