[CPEO-BIF] Champion sawmill site, Missoula, Montana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The dirt's clean at former Champion sawmill site in downtown Missoula

By KEILA SZPALLER
The Missoulian (MT)
February 9, 2009

Dirt at the former Champion sawmill site is clean, according to the 
Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

"We've met a major milestone in getting the soil work done," said Chris 
Cerquone, with AMEC Geomatrix, an environmental consulting firm leading 
the cleanup.

Petroleum had polluted portions of the former industrial complex, some 
46 acres on the southern banks of the Clark Fork River. So had a 
contaminant called trichloroethylene, or TCE, in soil vapors. But the 
site is getting scrubbed so it can support the mix of homes, retail 
shops and office space planned for the area, now called the Old Sawmill 
District.

The "soil closure" is one step in the cleanup. That job took a couple of 
years, and there's more work to be done. DEQ project officer Kate Fry 
said Monday the developer still must address wood waste and methane.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/02/09/bnews/br29.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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