[CPEO-BIF] Sangamo-Western PCBs, Twelve Mile Creek, Pickens County, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work crews due to arrive for Twelve Mile Creek project

Anderson Independent Mail (SC)
October 9, 2009

PICKENS - Work crews will be arriving on site next week to begin 
restoration of the Twelve Mile Creek watershed in Pickens County.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that beginning next week, 
Schlumberger would begin the construction phase of restoration 
activities. The company has selected a contractor that will prepare a 
sediment management unit off Old Henderson Road near SC 137.

The sediment management unit is being constructed for containment of 
sediment that will be removed from behind the Woodside I and II dams. 
The sediment will be transported via pipelines to the unit, reducing the 
need for truck traffic to transport the sediment.

"Every effort will be made to limit impacts to the local community, 
including, to the extent possible, avoidance of nighttime and weekend 
work," said Stephen Harris, spokesman for Schlumberger.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2009/oct/09/work-crews-due-arrive-twelve-mile-creek-project/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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