[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Clark County [WA] gets $6M from Army for groundwater cleanup at Camp Bonneville"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clark County gets $6M from Army for groundwater cleanup at Camp Bonneville
Amendment also extends county’s contract to 2054

By Shari Phiel
Columbian (WA)
January 8, 2025

Clark County’s efforts to address contaminated groundwater at Camp Bonneville are getting a boost from the U.S. Army.

On Tuesday, the county council approved a contract amendment to accept $6 million in additional funding from the Army for site cleanup. The amendment also extends the county’s contract with the Army to 2054.

Councilor Matt Little, one of two new councilors sworn in prior to the start of Tuesday’s meeting, suggested moving the discussion out two weeks to provide more time to review the contract changes and provide feedback.

“It’s great that we’re going to have some money for monitoring and remediation. The big question mark I had here is that it changes … the end date, which would have been July 2026 to September 2054. That’s almost 30 years,” Little said during the meeting.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/jan/08/clark-county-gets-6m-from-army-for-groundwater-cleanup-at-camp-bonneville/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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