September 1, 1998

The city of Jacksonville (Pulaski County) marked the official end of the Vertac site’s cleanup, which cost more than $150 million. The Vertac site in Jacksonville is one of the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites and Arkansas’s most publicized Superfund site. Cleanup of the area after its abandonment by its corporate owner took more than a decade, and the name “Vertac” soon became synonymous in Arkansas with the fear of industrial pollution.