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Title: Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 8): East Helena, MT. (First remedial action), November 1989

Abstract

The 80-acre East Helena site, in East Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, is a primary lead smelting facility that has been in operation since 1888. Prickly Pear Creek flows near the site and has been found to contain elevated levels of arsenic and lead. A 1984 remedial investigation identified elevated levels of metal contamination in soil, livestock, plants, and ground and surface waters with the sources of onsite contamination being primary and fugitive emissions and seepage from process ponds and process fluid circuitry. The primary contaminants of concern in the process ponds are metals including arsenic and lead. The selected remedial action for this site includes excavating and smelting 55,150 cubic yards of soil and/or sediment from all four process ponds and multi-media monitoring after individual remedial activities are implemented at three of the process pond areas.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
OSTI Identifier:
6749749
Report Number(s):
PB-90-220526/XAB; EPA/ROD/R-08-90/027
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; GROUND WATER; CONTAMINATION; MONTANA; POLLUTION; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; ARSENIC; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; LAND POLLUTION; LEAD; MONITORING; REMEDIAL ACTION; SITE SURVEYS; SMELTERS; SUPERFUND; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION; ELEMENTS; FEDERAL REGION VIII; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION LAWS; SEMIMETALS; USA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER; 540320* - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 540220 - Environment, Terrestrial- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)

Citation Formats

. Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 8): East Helena, MT. (First remedial action), November 1989. United States: N. p., 1989. Web.
. Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 8): East Helena, MT. (First remedial action), November 1989. United States.
. 1989. "Superfund Record of Decision (EPA Region 8): East Helena, MT. (First remedial action), November 1989". United States.
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abstractNote = {The 80-acre East Helena site, in East Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, is a primary lead smelting facility that has been in operation since 1888. Prickly Pear Creek flows near the site and has been found to contain elevated levels of arsenic and lead. A 1984 remedial investigation identified elevated levels of metal contamination in soil, livestock, plants, and ground and surface waters with the sources of onsite contamination being primary and fugitive emissions and seepage from process ponds and process fluid circuitry. The primary contaminants of concern in the process ponds are metals including arsenic and lead. The selected remedial action for this site includes excavating and smelting 55,150 cubic yards of soil and/or sediment from all four process ponds and multi-media monitoring after individual remedial activities are implemented at three of the process pond areas.},
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year = {Wed Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 1989},
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