From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:51:36 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Alcoa site, Vancouver, Washington |
State urges monitoring of pollution by Alcoa Cleanup of landfill on site of former plant not part of plan By Erik Robinson The Columbian (WA) October 5, 2010State environmental regulators are proposing to allow Alcoa to monitor pollution leaching from an old landfill on the site of its former Vancouver aluminum smelter, rather than requiring an expensive cleanup. The final cleanup action plan, to be released today for a 30-day public review, represents the last step to address Alcoa's lingering industrial legacy along the Columbia River. It follows last year's $10 million cleanup of a shoreline tainted with high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. The state Department of Ecology isn't proposing to force such an expensive remedy for the old unlined landfill 50 feet back from the Columbia's shoreline. Instead, the Pittsburgh-based company will be required to monitor groundwater polluted with trichloroethylene, or TCE, until it ultimately dissipates into the river. ... For the entire article, see http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/05/state-urges-monitoring-of-pollution-by-alcoa/ -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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