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January 2013 Newsletter
  • Removal Action Completed for Young America Mine
  • Recreational Consumption and Resource Use Survey for the Upper Columbia River
  • Black Sand Beach Monitoring Update
  • Recreational Consumption and Resource Use Survey for the Upper Columbia River
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Teck Resources has submitted a remediation plan to Environment Canada to clean up decades-old toxins that have seeped into the groundwater from its smelter in British Columbia.
Richard Deane, the manager of environmental health and safety at Teck's Trail operations, said the five-year plan calls for a treatment plant to remove heavy metals that have tainted the groundwater under the smelter. The public will have to take his word for it, as Environment Canada will not release the company's plan to deal with the arsenic, ammonia, lead and other heavy metals that have leached from historic tailings ponds and trenches. Full Story [85kb]
Citizens for a Clean Columbia Newsletter
January 2012
 Information You Might Have Missed From Teck:
Black Sand Beach Clean Up — The meeting was attended by more than 75 people. Download the questions and comments [74kb]. Washington State Department of Ecology detailed information on the project.  
 

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