Ciba-Geigy National Priorities List Site, McIntosh, Alabama: Restoration Plan and Programmatic Environmental Assessment

The Natural Resource Trustee Agencies (Trustees) present a description of the assessed natural resource injuries and losses resulting from releases of hazardous substances from the Ciba-Geigy NPL Site in McIntosh, Alabama, and the restoration project types proposed for use to compensate for those injuries and losses. Releases of hazardous substances, which include primarily dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and DDT-isomers, likely affected fish, birds, sediment, and sediment-dwelling biota. The Trustees identified habitat enhancement and restoration on newly acquired lands and habitat enhancement and restoration of state-owned lands as appropriate and reasonable strategies for restoration of natural resources or services like those injured or lost. This would include acquisition of forested, bottomland hardwood forest wetlands and/or restoration of degraded lands in the Upper Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The restoration of degraded floodplain habitats such as bottomland hardwood forests would provide direct benefits to fish, resident wildlife, migratory birds, and threatened and endangered species potentially injured by the release of hazardous substances from the Ciba-Geigy NPL Site. Acquired lands would be deeded to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to be managed in perpetuity as part of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Wildlife Management Area complex.