Tri-City Herald, Washington, in its August 29, 2012 article, reports that Silver Valley cleanup plan to cost $635 million.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — The massive cleanup of a
century's worth of mining pollution in Idaho's Silver Valley would cost $635 million
and take up to 30 years under a final plan approved by the federal government
on Tuesday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the
interim Record of Decision Amendment, which details its proposal to clean up
arsenic, lead and other heavy metals pollutants in the valley, which is
located 50 miles east of Spokane.
"This will bring real human health and
environmental protections in the basin," said Dan Opalski,
director of EPA's Superfund office in Seattle. "This is an important
milestone."
The EPA has already received written concurrence from
the state of Idaho and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, the other main players in
efforts to clean up the Upper Basin of the Coeur d'Alene River.
The agreement follows disputes over the scope of the
cleanup work, which in a 2010 proposal called for spending $1.3 billion over
a time frame of some 50 years.
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