After North Haven businessman Michael Schiavione paid to have 500 tons of PCB-contaminated soil properly disposed, he might have felt the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would want to give him a medal.

Instead, on a routine monitoring visit, EPA engineer Marianne Milette and Kimberly Tisa, an EPA “PCB coordinator,” noticed 27 drums of water that had been removed from the PCB soil. Because Polychlorinated Biphenyls are not water soluble, only 7 parts per billion remained in the water, according to an independent lab.

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