Beaver Dam Park

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Beaver Dam Park

Well, it sounds like the soil tested at the new Park location in Opportunity, needs to be replaced. Seems as though it contains enough contaminated soil, to warrant clean up. Imagine that... I can't help but think of all of the children that played in that playground in all that contaminated soil. I wonder how many of them developed Cancer or some other disease caused from these contaminates? Something else I can't help but think about is, why does the school playground have so much contaminates on it and the residential properties in Opportunity doesn't? I am thinking that this should warrant all new testing in Opportunity. NOT the way is was done before with the mixing of samples and taking an average but test each and every soil sample taken. Are we all living in a community that is slowly killing us all? EPA, stand up to the plate and take charge of this project, the citizens of Opportunity are relying on you. If you don't do it, ARCo surely isn't..... This isn't over folks, it has just begun......

George--

The wind blew and the crap flew

These pictures where taken at 3PM March 10, 2011. 
THEY TRICKED US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We still have a contaminated dust problem!!!!!!

 

HOLD your breath Warm Springs and Deer Lodge....

EPA: Hundreds of Anaconda yards contaminated with high lead levels

The Environmental Protection Agency says 800 household yards in Anaconda could be contaminated with high levels of lead and the agency is now working on a plan of action to clean it up.

EPA project manager for the Anaconda area, Charlie Coleman, says in 2008 soil samples came back with higher levels of lead than they had in the 1990s when the EPA's original record of decision for clean up in the area was finalized. He says they tested between 50 to 100 yards and 35 percent came back with high levels of lead. If that percentage holds true for the entire area about 800 yards would have elevated levels of lead.

A feasibility study has since been conducted, and Coleman says the next step is to develop a proposed amendment to the record of decision on how to deal with the lead contamination. Coleman says it will probably be about a $10 million cleanup project that Atlantic Richfield Company would be responsible for. But, he adds that it's nothing Anaconda residents should worry about right now.

"A lot of the homes, a lot of the most contaminated yards have been addressed. You know, given the values we're seeing with some of the re sampling, I don't believe there's an immediate risk that people should feel alarmed," Coleman said.

Coleman says the proposed amendment should be out sometime this summer and then the public will have a chance to comment on it. He expects it to be finalized in late 2011 or early 2012.

Time for some re sampling in Opportunity as well..