Plan for Lockwood clean-up finalized (MT)
The Billings Gazette (MT) reports:
Montana and federal officials Tuesday released the final plan for cleaning up solvent-contaminated soils and groundwater in the Lockwood Superfund site.Read the full story.
The cleanup will take about 10 years and cost an estimated $14.3 million.
The report, called a Record of Decision, identifies the remedy for the site as approved by the state Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The chemicals, which are commonly used as degreasers and in dry cleaning, include tetrachloroethene (PCE), and its breakdown chemicals, trichloroethene (TCE), dichloroethene (DCE) and vinyl chloride.