Posted on May 15, 2024
The State Ports Authority is asking regulators to approve a contract that would let the maritime agency clean up pollution on the former WestRock paper mill site in North Charleston in preparation for redeveloping the 274-acre property as a shipping terminal.
The proposal is called a voluntary cleanup contract, and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control regularly approves them for businesses that want to buy and redevelop so-called brownfield properties with decades-old contamination issues.
