KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — They held an information meeting in Kalamazoo Thursday and a couple of bits of news came out of it.
The EPA says a compromise solution to the Cleanup at the Allied Paper Dump will cost about $63-million. That’s about 13-million more than is in the trust for this project, but obtainable.
That’s about a third of what it would cost to haul all the contaminated soil to a Wayne county landfill.
Project Manager Michael Berkoff also stated that a review by the EPA’s best bio-remediation experts doubted that there would be any way to treat the soil in place to render the PCB’s inert.
They also released the findings of water well testing and found their assumptions about leaching and the direction of water flow were correct. The water tends to flow towards Portage Creek and away from a nearby city aquifer. They also found very little to no traces of PCB in the samples from deeper wells.
More public input sessions are planned in the next few months before they begin finalizing decisions on the way to proceed. No specific dates have been announced.