[CPEO-BIF] Alcoa site, Vancouver, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State urges monitoring of pollution by Alcoa
Cleanup of landfill on site of former plant not part of plan

By Erik Robinson
The Columbian (WA)
October 5, 2010


State environmental regulators are proposing to allow Alcoa to monitor 
pollution leaching from an old landfill on the site of its former 
Vancouver aluminum smelter, rather than requiring an expensive cleanup.

The final cleanup action plan, to be released today for a 30-day public 
review, represents the last step to address Alcoa's lingering industrial 
legacy along the Columbia River.

It follows last year's $10 million cleanup of a shoreline tainted with 
high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

The state Department of Ecology isn't proposing to force such an 
expensive remedy for the old unlined landfill 50 feet back from the 
Columbia's shoreline. Instead, the Pittsburgh-based company will be 
required to monitor groundwater polluted with trichloroethylene, or TCE, 
until it ultimately dissipates into the river.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/05/state-urges-monitoring-of-pollution-by-alcoa/

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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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