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Article: Excavation of Reserve's hazardous barrels is complete.
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2007
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Byline: John Myers
Aug. 28--Crews have reached the bottom of a barrel dumping ground at the former Reserve Mining Co. plant in Silver Bay, and contractors are set to cap and cover the site.
Since it was first reported in the News Tribune in 2004, the cleanup grew four times larger and almost seven times more expensive than officials expected.
More than 12,500 rusted,
55-gallon drums filled with lead-tainted machinery grease were removed over the past two years, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.
The cost, including disposing hazardous soils and capping the dump next spring, will hit $14 million.
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