The Environmental Protection Agency made its strongest case yet for a “waste in place” solution for the cleanup of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. Superfund site during a public meeting last week.
At issue is what to do with a 200-acre landfill of buried potliners — the leftover residue of the aluminum smelting process at Columbia Falls Aluminum Co.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands sickened following decades of exposure to asbestos from the now-shuttered W.R. Grace and Co. vermiculite mine.
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