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Butte mine waste repository chosen to store contaminated Superfund soil

Butte mine waste repository chosen to store contaminated Superfund soil

BUTTE, Mont. — A 33-acre site northwest of the Berkeley Pit has been selected to store contaminated soil as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund cleanup efforts in Butte. The Butte Mine Waste Repository received official approval from the EPA and the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

Butte Mine Waste Repository gets formal nod from EPA, DEQ

The Berkeley Pit bit the dust, at least for the foreseeable future, as a place to dump contaminated soils from Superfund sites in the so-called Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area. The Butte Mine Wastes Repository, after being dismissed early on as being too small, ultimately got the nod after

Warm Springs Ponds: Researcher to study potential metals exposure in migratory birds

They swim like ducks and look like ducks, but American coots are members of the rail family of birds. Coots have faces only a mother coot could love. Their flattened features resemble those of a hapless pugilist. Bald eagles hunt coots because the slow fliers are easy to snatch. Quirky

'Diggings East' Superfund work slated to begin in August

The Diggings East site in Butte contains just about everything except the kitchen sink, and that’s likely in the mix too. Along with mine tailings, contaminated soils, municipal wastes, timbers, household wastes, construction debris and more. Josh Bryson, Atlantic Richfield’s project manager in Butte, said the 30-acre

Repo plan: Berkeley Pit gets the snub, for now, to accepting Superfund wastes

Josh Bryson of Atlantic Richfield said in March 2024 that preliminary analysis of the Berkeley Pit suggested the contaminated lake was shaping up as a preferred option to accept Superfund wastes from sites in the Silver Bow Creek Corridor. Not anymore. At least not for now. “The need for continued