PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The EPA gave city and state leaders a tour of the old Mississippi Phosphates property Thursday morning.

When the company went out of business in 2014, 700 million gallons of acidic wastewater were left behind. The EPA took control of the site in 2017 and has been working to clean up the property since.

“It needs to be treated and neutralized before it is released,” EPA Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber said. “There is close to 1.5 million gallons a day being treated that comes off the site, and every day gets a little bit better because of the work being done here.”

Since 2017, the subcontractor Kemron has treated more than 5 billion gallons of acidic water.

Chris Wells with the state Department of Environmental Quality said some superfund sites take decad

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