EPA invites your review of its Draft Implementation Plan. The document spells out plans for doing Superfund cleanup in the Basin over the next ten years. The plan is a companion piece to EPA’s recent ROD Amendment. It describes what cleanup work will happen and when.
“It’s like a roadmap,” says EPA Team Leader Bill Adams. “It projects cleanup work for the next ten years. Communities will be affected, and we want the public to help us map out this work.”
Public input is due December 6. Email suggestions to cdabasin@epa.gov. Or, mail them to CDA Basin Team, EPA Region 10, 1200 6th Ave, Ste. 900, ECL-113, Seattle, WA 98101. EPA will issue a revised plan early next year, telling what changes it made in response to public input. There will not be a full response to each individual comment.
Projects include:
· Finish property cleanups in the Basin with emphasis on high risk homes with children and pregnant women.
· Take steps to address roads that may have been damaged by cleanup activities, so that those roads can continue to serve as barriers to underlying contamination.
· Complete actions to protect cleanup work that has already been done.
· Upgrade the treatment plant that cleans the groundwater from the Box and Bunker Hill mine.
· Construct a drain to intercept groundwater near the Central Impoundment Area in the Box.
· Do high-priority cleanup work along the East Fork of Ninemile Creek.
· Begin work in Canyon Creek to collect water for treatment at the CTP (Central Treatment Plant) and to control sources of contamination.
· Do projects in the Lower Basin to increase understanding of the area and methods to address risks that will lead to future cleanup work.
· Design and construct the Lower Burke Canyon Repository and the Osburn Repository.
“It’s like a roadmap,” says EPA Team Leader Bill Adams. “It projects cleanup work for the next ten years. Communities will be affected, and we want the public to help us map out this work.”
Public input is due December 6. Email suggestions to cdabasin@epa.gov. Or, mail them to CDA Basin Team, EPA Region 10, 1200 6th Ave, Ste. 900, ECL-113, Seattle, WA 98101. EPA will issue a revised plan early next year, telling what changes it made in response to public input. There will not be a full response to each individual comment.
Projects include:
· Finish property cleanups in the Basin with emphasis on high risk homes with children and pregnant women.
· Take steps to address roads that may have been damaged by cleanup activities, so that those roads can continue to serve as barriers to underlying contamination.
· Complete actions to protect cleanup work that has already been done.
· Upgrade the treatment plant that cleans the groundwater from the Box and Bunker Hill mine.
· Construct a drain to intercept groundwater near the Central Impoundment Area in the Box.
· Do high-priority cleanup work along the East Fork of Ninemile Creek.
· Begin work in Canyon Creek to collect water for treatment at the CTP (Central Treatment Plant) and to control sources of contamination.
· Do projects in the Lower Basin to increase understanding of the area and methods to address risks that will lead to future cleanup work.
· Design and construct the Lower Burke Canyon Repository and the Osburn Repository.
Links to the documents
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