[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, CLOSURE: Camp Bonneville (WA) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County to approve Camp Bonneville cleanup settlement

By Stephanie Rice
Columbian (WA)
July 9, 2010

The slow conversion of Camp Bonneville from U.S. Army training base to 
regional park will mark a small milestone Tuesday as Clark County 
commissioners are expected to approve a settlement agreement with a 
contractor and two subcontractors.

In 2006, Clark County hired Bonneville Conservation, Restoration and 
Renewal Team, Michael Baker Jr. Inc and MKM Engineers Inc. to clean up 
the 3,840-acre property, about six miles north of Camas.

Amid disputes over the cleanup, which proved more extensive than 
initially thought, work was suspended in September 2009.

The agreement calls for BCRRT and its president, Mike Gage, to leave the 
site July 15. The county would then lease the property from BCRRT 
rent-free for a year while it negotiates for a new cleanup funding 
agreement with the Army, said Jeff Mize, spokesman for the county’s 
public works department.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/jul/09/county-to-approve-camp-bonneville-cleanup-settleme/

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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
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