Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Mill Town Toxic sediments at the ARCO/BP repository

These pictures where taken off of the cfrtac website...
http://www.cfrtac.org/?p=217





One train a day, with 45 rail cars, makes the trip to the BP-ARCO repository.



Roughly 642,000 cubic yards of Milltown sediment has been shipped to BP-ARCO’s repository at the Anaconda Superfund site. CFRTAC coordinator Michael Kustudia, with assistance of pilot Gary Matson, recently flew over the repository and took these photos. The photo above shows the sediments being spread to form roughly a two-foot layer.

This repository cell awaits capping.

Milltown sediments, rich in both heavy metals and organic matter, are used to cap areas at the repository, which home to more than 300 million cubic yards of smelter waste.

photo's by Mike Kustudia





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