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Thermal desorption, which treats contaminated solids at lower heats, is being explored as an option for cleaning up solid waste at AltEn near Mead.
The EPA has finished up sampling and should know the extent of the fire's impact by next week.
Some people living in Mead, Nebraska say they want clean-up crews to stop dumping wastewater from the shutdown AltEn ethanol plant.
A voluntary clean-up crew has been treating and releasing some of that wastewater and now they're looking to keep doing it.
The troubled AltEn ethanol plant planned to sell contaminated byproduct to a Kansas ranching and farming group. Then state regulators stepped in, and found the Kansas company didn’t have the full picture.