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Environmental concerns linger over the J.H. Baxter plant in Eugene’s Bethel neighborhood. After 80 years of operation, the wood treatment facility shut down for good in January, but legal cases and calls for accountability still dog it, and now it faces more penalties from regulatory agencies. KLCC has more in this investigative update. ....
DEQ fines Eugene wood treatment facility $223K over violations Updated Mar 04, 2021; Facebook Share EUGENE The state has fined a Eugene wood treatment plant more than $200,000 for hazardous waste and water quality violations that regulators say occurred over the last five years. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued J.H. Baxter & Co. $223,440 in fines Wednesday for violations that included the illegal treatment of 1.7 million gallons of hazardous waste between 2015-19 and two unpermitted discharges of untreated storm water in 2019, The Register-Guard reported. DEQ fines Eugene wood treatment facility $223K over violations also is ordering the company to create plans for investigating and sampling to better understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of the violations. ....