EPA Invites Public Review of Basin Cleanup Planning

From EPA:

Coeur d'Alene Basin Cleanup - UPDATE

EPA Invites Public Review of Basin Cleanup Planning       Comments Due November 14, 2016 Review the Plan The EPA invites your review of its 2016 10-Year Implementation Plan. It spells out general plans for doing Superfund cleanup work in the Coeur d’Alene Basin over the next decade. The EPA will review and consider all comments on the plan. After the review time, the EPA will issue the final plan. The EPA will also tell what changes it made in response to the comments. Send written comments by November 14, 2016 to: adams.bill@epa.gov or Bill Adams, U.S. EPA, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, ECL-122, Seattle, WA 98101. Find the Plan Online: https://semspub.epa.gov/src/document/10/100031127 Get a Copy on CD: Call Rene Gilbert, EPA Community Liaison, 208-659-5237 Cleanup Work: Plans for the Next 10 Years       Finish property cleanups in the Basin with emphasis on high risk homes with children and pregnant women. Complete repair of roads that may have been damaged by cleanup activities, so that those roads can 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. Continue high-priority cleanup work in the East Fork of Ninemile Creek. Begin work in Canyon Creek to control sources of contamination. Conduct work in the Lower Basin that will support the prioritization of pilot projects and remedial actions to address risks. Continue managing repositories. Fact Sheet about Implementation Plan: https://semspub.epa.gov/src/document/10/100031358 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/CDAbasin Cleanup Website:  https://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/sites/bh