[CPEO-BIF] Idaho Pole Company, Bozeman, Montana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Bozeman Superfund site deemed ready for redevelopment

By MICHAEL GIBNEY
Bozeman Daily Chronicle (MT)
January 28, 1010

After more than 20 years as a Superfund site, the north Bozeman property 
once home to the Idaho Pole Company has met clean-soil standards and 
could soon be suitable for redevelopment.

Soil on the site straddling Interstate 90, as well as groundwater, was 
contaminated when the wood-treating facility that operated there between 
1945 and 1997 used two toxic chemicals -- creosote and 
pentachlorophenol, or PCP -- to preserve wood, according to the 
Environmental Protection Agency.

Dioxins, a likely carcinogen, according to the National Academy of 
Sciences, were also detected at the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2010/01/28/news/200superfund.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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