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Article: Mine may make Superfund list.(Environment)(The EPA is accepting comment on the Formosa mine, south of Roseburg, but cleanup isn't likely any time soon)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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Byline: Christian Wihtol The Register-Guard
The federal government has formally proposed adding the polluted and abandoned Formosa mine in Douglas County to the Superfund list of the nation's worst toxic waste sites.
The move eventually could lead to a federal cleanup of the shuttered copper mine about 25 miles south of Roseburg, said Ken Marcy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinator for the Superfund list in the region. A listing also could spark an intensified federal effort to get those responsible to pay for the cleanup, Marcy said.
The Formosa mine, perhaps the most polluted mining site in the state, was actively worked by a ...