(Harrisburg) -- A Lancaster County industrial site will likely undergo a cleanup effort worth about two million dollars. The state Department of Environmental Protection says the Berkley Products Company plant near Akron was a hazardous waste treatment and storage facility in the 1980s. DEP spokeswoman Lisa Kasianowitz says studies in the last decade revealed contamination underneath nearby homes and in a tributary of the Conestoga River. She says steps were taken to protect the people living near the industrial coatings company, but more work needs to be done. "DEP will have wells that are drilled into the ground to monitor the contamination. The final hope is that all the contamination is cleaned up. DEP will continue to monitor, but the hope is that this can be a clean site again," she says. The department has sent about two-thousand letters to companies that brought waste to Berkley's two-and-a-half-acre site. Those businesses could bear some of the cost for the cleanup. The DEP has scheduled a public meeting for next Wednesday to give residents and companies a chance to weigh-in on the cleanup plan.