The field lights illuminate the evening. The bases are loaded.
Fans cheer the batter.
Sitting in the bleachers, you would never know that the field was once part of the Chisman Creek Superfund site. Today, the keep out signs are gone and the former fly ash disposal area supports two recreational parks with softball and soccer fields. Now, the familiar shouts and cheers of the games sound sweeter than usual because of the cleanup and redevelopment of the site. What follows is the story of how the partnerships formed by EPA made the site s transformation possible, and the economic impacts and environmental and social benefits that resulted. Between 1957 and 1974, a local contractor deposited more than 500,000 tons of fly ash from Virginia Power s Yorktown Power Station in abandoned sand and gravel pits on the Chisman Creek property.