[CPEO-BIF] Olympia, WA - building on an old dump

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Lowe's site potential groundwater threat

BY JOHN DODGE
THE OLYMPIAN (WA)
September 13, 2005

Developer MKM Northwest is in the midst of environmental studies of the
west-side property proposed for a Lowe's Home Improvement store. The
site served as a city garbage dump from the mid-1950s until 1968. At the
time, garbage was burned in an open pit. 

Home Depot, K-Mart, Costco and other retailers have looked at the site
before. The specter of contamination from the old landfill has scared
off several potential developers.

MKM spokesman Mike McLeod said the latest round of site studies that
began last year have not revealed any major toxic hot spots that would
require soil excavation or pumping and treating of the groundwater
beneath the site.

"The best thing we could do is to cap the site to keep rainwater from
infiltrating through the garbage," McLeod said.

For the entire article, see
http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/NEWS/509130309

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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