Dulany Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) has officially removed the former Kerr-McGee Pigments site (HSI #10641) and Deptford Tract Landfill site (HSI #10179) at SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex – an innovative, multi-use, multi-tenant industrial hub in Savannah, Ga. with a strong focus on sustainability – from the Hazardous Site Inventory list. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division reclassified both sites on March 18, 2025 in response to the completion of a successful environmental remediation project at the former Tronox/Kerr-McGee industrial site off President Street on the city’s eastside.
The environmental remediation initiative at SeaPoint marked a landmark collaboration between Dulany Industries, Greenfield Environmental Trust and Terracon Consultants and was the largest project by area since the inception of the Georgia Brownfield Program. The $38 million privately funded environmental remediation project spanned 755 acres and included 84 distinct work elements.
“We’re thrilled that SeaPoint has set a new standard for environmental excellence in Georgia,” said Reed Dulany, President and CEO of Dulany Industries, Inc. “The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has stringent standards, so de-listing these sites serves as a testament to the quality of the clean-up work that has been completed in accordance with our Corrective Action Plan. It’s truly an honor to return this brownfield to productive use, which will bring several thousand new jobs and billions of investment to Georgia.”
The SeaPoint remediation project previously received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IV Phoenix Award, which recognizes extraordinary brownfield projects across the United States, as well as the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce Environmental Excellence Award, Georgia American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Environmental State Award and Georgia American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) People’s Choice Award.
“Removing SeaPoint from the Hazardous Site Inventory list says a lot about the high level of confidence that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division has in the work we’ve done,” said Philip Rowland, Vice President of Operations at Dulany Industries, Inc. “We all wanted to do the best job possible at the SeaPoint site. We’re also working on a similar environmental remediation project at SeaGate Savannah and hope to get that site de-listed as well.”
SeaPoint offers more than 600 upland acres of land for development, a mile of deepwater access directly on the main shipping channel with no height restrictions plus existing rail, utilities and office buildings in a Federal Opportunity Zone. SeaPoint is also home to a solar farm and bee apiary, thanks to the support of Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols. The site has attracted interest from national and international companies interested in expanding to coastal Georgia.
The SeaPoint industrial site on Savannah’s eastside was originally developed in the 1950s by American Cyanamid to produce titanium dioxide and was subsequently owned by Kemira, Kerr-McGee and Tronox over the years. In 2009, Tronox filed for bankruptcy and shut down nearly all operations at the site, resulting in significant high-wage job and tax base losses for Chatham County. As part of the bankruptcy settlement, site ownership was transferred to Greenfield Environmental Trust Group, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and state and federal governments serving as beneficiaries of the trust.
In 2014, Dulany Industries, Inc. was selected to purchase the site and to undertake an ambitious environmental clean-up effort designed to return the site to productive use, utilizing the site’s one mile of deepwater access directly on the Savannah River.
A six-year Corrective Action Plan (CAP) was developed jointly by the U.S. EPA, Georgia EPD, the Greenfield Environmental Trust and Dulany Industries Inc. in 2017 and was approved by the Georgia EPD in consultation with the EPA. Later that year, Dulany Industries, Inc. finalized the purchase of the 1,600-acre site, which was renamed SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex, and deeded 728 acres of land to the State of Georgia for marshland protection and as an additional buffer for Old Fort Jackson.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler visited SeaPoint in 2020 and celebrated the site as a national model for environmental remediation. Georgia Governor’s Nathan Deal and Brian Kemp, Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Georgia Representative Buddy Carter and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm have all visited SeaPoint in recent years to learn about this innovative project and to support its sustainable vision.
According to a University of Georgia study, SeaPoint has the potential to create 1,700+ new high-wage jobs in a federal Opportunity Zone in Savannah, Ga., and to generate an estimated annual economic impact of nearly $1 billion.
