Kent County wanted a bike path.
Local officials in the Delaware county had their eye on a former landfill, practically across the street from Dover Air Force Base. So in 2005 they bought the property and two years later got certification from the Environmental Protection Agency that the site was safe.
But in 2010, the EPA’s Inspector General, the agency’s independent watchdog, found that toxic chemicals were still present at the site, requiring more action by environmental officials before the bike path could be built.
Program to return decontaminated sites to communities hits snag as investigators find toxic chemicals still present
