[CPEO-BIF] "Former Swift site in Ogden [Utah] inches closer to being free of contaminants"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Swift site in Ogden inches closer to being free of contaminants
Ogden ‘is excited about the prospects of what this could become’ after the area near the Weber River is completely cleared

By Amy Joi O’Donoghue
Deseret News (UT)
December 13, 2023

It has cost the government millions of dollars and years to tackle as part of an arduous process to rid a 7-acre parcel on the west side of Ogden of dangerous contaminants that not only threatened nearby households and businesses, but also the Weber River. 

The Swift complex sat on the banks of the vital tributary to the Great Salt Lake and for more than 100 years was host to a meatpacking plant and later used to store surplus military items and was home to dangerous chemicals such as benzene, hydrochloric acid, mercury and more.

According to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, the legacy of environmental impacts featured thousands and thousands of abandoned containers, including flammables, corrosives, water reactives and other dangerous chemicals inside the buildings. 

But the area is now close to being clean.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/13/23959470/former-swift-site-in-ogden-inches-closer-to-being-free-of-contaminants

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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