[CPEO-BIF] Midvale (UT) slag site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Midvale slag site sees rebirth

By Cathy McKitrick
The Salt Lake Tribune
August 27, 2006

MIDVALE - Several decades ago, when area smelters processed ore from 
Kennecott's mines, residents in this south-central Salt Lake Valley 
community could sense something in the air.

During inversions, JoAnn Seghini - then a young girl - has a metallic 
taste on the back of her tongue.

Seghini, now mayor, knows it was arsenic.

For Seghini, completion of the cleanup of the 446-acre Midvale slag site 
- on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list since 
1991 and delisted just last month - signals a new day.

"For many years, we've been under the cloud of Superfund sites. We've 
seen home values reduced to $1 by the county assessor because of that," 
she said, adding that more than 700 homes were affected by wind-borne 
debris.

However, after years of negotiations among landowners, developers, the 
city and the EPA - plus extensive land restoration over the past 18 
months - that chapter in Midvale's history appears to have ended.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4245779
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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