With 'big decisions' ahead, Lawrence City Commission approves spending another $208,000 to study site of Farmland fertilizer plant | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas
The former Farmland site is seen in this aerial photograph on Monday, July 1, 2013. Lawrence city leaders have approved spending another $208,000 to further study contamination levels at the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, but they emphasized that the most difficult decisions about the site’s cleanup were still ahead. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to authorize a second addition to its contract with GHD Services Inc., which the city hired in 2018 to come up with a new remediation plan for the site after the original method proved...