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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a new phase for cleaning up the Swan Island Basin portion of the Portland Harbor Superfund site, a culturally significant area to six Native American tribes that has been polluted for decades. ....
EPA reaches agreement for Portland Harbor Superfund Site February 15, 2021, by Eldin Ganic The U.S. EPA has finalized an agreement with 12 parties to develop detailed cleanup plans for the Swan Island Basin, completing a major milestone in the cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. According to EPA, this latest cleanup agreement represents nearly 25 percent of the site’s total cleanup area, and along with earlier agreements, brings 100 percent of the site’s areas requiring active cleanup into the remedial design phase of the Superfund cleanup process. EPA and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality are working with partners, including six tribes, stakeholders and 36 responsible parties to implement the 2017 Record of Decision to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, an approximately 10-mile stretch of the Lower Willamette River, in Portland, Oregon where approximately 370 acres of contam ....