2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Lockwood Solvent Ground Water Plume Superfund Site, Lockwood, Montana
 
EPA to hold community meeting on Lockwood toxic cleanup

BY CLAIR JOHNSON
Billings Gazette (MT)
April 20, 2012

In the 12 years since the Environmental Protection Agency designated 580 acres in Lockwood a Superfund site because the soil and water was contaminated by toxic chemicals, no actual cleanup work has been done.

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Two companies are responsible for the contamination. One is Soco West Inc., which reached an agreement last fall to clean up its area at an estimated cost of $6.9 million. Soco West is the successor of Brenntag West Inc. and Dyce Chemical, which operated a chemical repacking and distribution plant.

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EPA would like to collect soil gas samples around homes this summer, then return in the winter for more indoor air testing, Hoogerheide said. The sample collection will be voluntary, he added. Winter is the best time to test indoor air because homes tend to be closed up in the colder weather, he said. Chlorinated solvents are more likely to vaporize and come up from the ground water.


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For the entire article, see
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/epa-to-hold-community-meeting- on-lockwood-toxic-cleanup/article_d61e20f1- a3de-5ac5-8dfc-4a1c430f2b9e.html

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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
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