[CPEO-BIF] Lewis County, Washington truck-washing station

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Aquifer Contamination, 10 Years Later

By Eric Schwartz
Lewis County Chronicle (WA)
October 6, 2009

It's been more than 10 years since Lewis County first identified 
chemical contamination in an aquifer that sat below its Central Shop on 
Forest-Napavine Road and provided water to surrounding residents.

Since then, the county has paid one resident more than $200,000 as a 
settlement and hooked a total of nine households to city water after 
wells in that area along Jackson Highway near North Fork Road were found 
to have chemicals above federal standards.

More than 590 tons of contaminated soil - the likely result of a truck 
washing station that released solvent on the site decades ago - has been 
removed and the aquifer has been treated periodically.

Now, the county has agreed to continue efforts to monitor and treat the 
water source for at least the next ten years. The Lewis County 
Commission agreed to a renewed deal with the Washington State Department 
of Ecology during its regular meeting Monday.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/10/06/news/doc4acb7c7331cc7092302754.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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