The Environmental Protection Agency reached a $21.8 million settlement with 95 parties to help clean up a Superfund site once home to solvent recycling company Spectron, the agency announced Thursday.

The defendants agreed to pay to remove chemicals from the site, located in a rural residential area just outside of Elkton, at an estimated cost of $19.5 million, the EPA said in a news release.

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