Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Exide Technologies in Reading ...
Sep 22, 2020·For many years Exide operated a lead smelter and recycled lead batteries. As a result of 35 years of lead smelter operation prior to the installation of air pollution controls and the advent of the Clean Air Act of 1970, Exide contributed to lead emissions and releases that impacted the soils in the surrounding community and the conditions at the site.