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King County will not move PCB-contaminated
sludge from a Superfund clean-up site on Seattle’s Duwamish waterway
to Tacoma’s Commencement Bay, after all. The original plan
was heavily denounced by environmental groups, elected
officials in the City of Tacoma, some Seattle officials, & others
(including RCAA).
Instead, the materials will find a permanent home at a
land-fill in Klickitat County.
The Superfund clean-up is under
the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
RCAA said, in comments
to the EPA, "We have a general concern about the way
contaminated soils are handled in this State, because such
materials have a way of ending up in bad places, & especially
in the construction area for the third runway. We are concerned
every time we see another precedent for mis-handling of
contaminated materials. We do not want to see any more
toxic materials from the Duwamish sent to Sea-Tac Airport,
nor do we want to see them sent any other inappropriate
place. We certainly don’t want PCBs from the EPA."
We congratulate B.J. Cummings,
co-ordinator of Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (DRCC), & her
colleagues, for their successful campaign against this
ill-advised notion.
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