[CPEO-BIF] Alcoa landfill, Vancouver, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State, Alcoa still in landfill talks
Site is leaking pollutants into groundwater, raising concerns about river

By Erik Robinson
The Columbian (WA)
July 18, 2009

Lured by inexpensive hydro power, Alcoa opened the Northwest's first 
aluminum smelter along the Columbia River shore in Vancouver in 1940.

In the short term, the plant turned out the raw material for American 
warplanes that eventually overwhelmed the Axis powers in World War II. 
Over the long term, the smelter was the linchpin of Clark County 
manufacturing for more than half a century, employing as many as 2,000 
people at a time.

Now, only one last vestige of Alcoa's imprint remains.

An old unlined landfill, containing industrial waste consolidated 
throughout the 218-acre property, is leaching pollution into 
groundwater. State environmental regulators, who had expected to 
finalize a cleanup plan earlier this year, say they are continuing to 
negotiate an agreement with the Pittsburgh-based company to address the 
leaking landfill.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090718/NEWS02/707189966/State++Alcoa+still+in+landfill+talks

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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