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The Repository Siting Committee has submitted a report for EPA review about three candidate sites in Butte-Silver Bow County that could accept Superfund wastes from the Silver Bow Creek Corridor.
The Repository Siting Committee has submitted a report for EPA review about three candidate sites in Butte-Silver Bow County that could accept Superfund wastes from the Silver Bow Creek Corridor.
On “Earth Day” April 22, 1982, the Atlantic Richfield Company now British Petroleum Company, made the infamous decision to shut off the underground mine pumps in the Kelley Mine in
The Repository Siting Committee will meet Thursday night to continue discussion of possible sites for a wastes repository in Butte to accept contaminated materials for federal Superfund areas.
The EPA will review repository proposals from Atlantic Richfield and Butte-Silver Bow to determine if a site chosen will be protective of human health and the environment.
Atlantic Richfield is considering options for transporting and sequestering contaminated mining and smelting wastes. One option for a repository could be the polluted Berkeley Pit.
Regional EPA Administrator KC Becker's recent op-ed continued the local debate about the potential use of onsite material, or "dirty dirt," as fill for Superfund cleanup sites.
Josh Bryson of the Atlantic Richfield Co. provided an overview and answered questions Tuesday night about a proposed wastes repository that would be in the vicinity of the community.
After others balked, the state's Natural Resource Damage Program took on the ambitious cleanup of ground-water polluting wastes at the site of the former Parrot Smelter in Butte.