[CPEO-BIF] "Columbia River’s Bradford Island gets new push for toxic Superfund status"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Columbia River’s Bradford Island gets new push for toxic Superfund status


By Monica Samayoa 
Oregon Public Broadcasting
June 24, 2021 

Indigenous tribes and environmentalists are calling on the Biden administration to live up to its commitment to environmental justice by cleaning up a contaminated Columbia River island adjacent to Bonneville Dam.

Bradford Island, located near Cascade Locks, has been used by the Army Corps of Engineers since the construction of the Bonneville Dam in the 1930s. That marked the beginning of what would be a decades-long history of using the area as a dumping ground from 1942 until 1982. The Corps dumped electrical components and other debris that contained highly toxic chemicals likepolychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs. That led to pollution of the river and the contamination of fish in the area.

Several environmental, health and conservation groups, along with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Washington State Department of Ecology, recently submitted a letter requesting once again for the Environmental Protection Agency to designate Bradford Island as a toxic Superfund cleanup site.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/24/columbia-river-bradford-island-gets-new-push-for-toxic-superfund-status/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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