Cleanup
Update
or More Information:
Russ Forba, EPA
457-5042
forba.russ@epa.qov
Diana Hammer, EPA
457-5040
hammer.diana@epa.gov
Keith Large, MT DEQ
841-5039
klarqe@mt.gov
Doug Martin, MT NRDP
444-0234
douqmartin@mt.gov
Peter Nielsen, Missoula Co.
258-4968
Nielsen Pİ ho.missoula.mt.us
Websites:
http://www.epa.gov/
regionS/superfund/sites/
mt/milltown
http://www.cfrtac.org
To view on-going
activities, please visit:
http://www.clarkfork.org/
and click on the webcam.
Milltown Reservoir
Sediments
Superfund Site i
Status: The Milltown Project continues to go very well and is on schedule.
Project personnel have worked 289,421 hours without time lost to injury.
Issue #83
June 24,2009
These updates are intended to
provide you with the latest
information about remediation,
restoration and redevelopment
activities at the
Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site.
REMEDIATION
As of Sunday, 2,616,775
tons (~ 2,012,903 cubic
yards) of sediment have
been excavated, loaded
and hauled off-site.
The Milltown project has
achieved another mile-
stone - removing over 2
million cubic yards of
contaminated sediments
of the 2.2 million slated
fro removal. This portion
of the project is 91%
complete. Removal, load-
ing, and hauling of the
contaminated sediments ^
to the Anaconda Smelter
Superfund Site should be
complete by September 2009.
Beginning today (6/24/09), Montana Rail Link will be removing another 1200 feet of
rail line from the on-site rail spur. This is in addition to the 600 feet of rail line MRL
removed in May. With the shortened track, the train will be split into two sections for load-
ing the sediments. To switch out the trains for loading, the trains will be using the rail
across Highway 210 E near the Lutheran Church and also near Harold's Club. Switching is
expected to occur around 10:30 am and in the middle of the night and should disrupt traffic
for less than ten minutes each time. EPA has coordinated this new train schedule with the
Banner School, local Fire and Sherriff's Offices, and Missoula County.
Continue pumping from nine wells along the diversion dike at the upstr earn end of the
Bypass Channel to keep the area drier during excavation of the new Claris Fork River channel.
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Excavating sediments from along the bed of the rail spur.
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US EPA Montana Office
10 W.I 5th St., Ste.3200
Helena, Montana 59626
RESTORATION
Continue excavating Sediment Accumulation Area II (sub-areas L&J) to prepare for the
new Clark Fork River channel and re-graded f loodplain. Material from this area is being
stockpiled along the Bypass Channel and will be used later in the bypass Channel reclamation
scheduled for 2011. To date, work crews have removed 67,000 cubic yards of material.
> Removed 6,000 cubic yards of buried A-horizon soils from the new river channel bottom.
34,000 cubic yards of Buried have been stockpiled so far for later use in river restoration.
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Upcoming
Events
Monday, July 13
Milltown Banner
Community Council
meeting 7 pm in the
Banner School Library
Tuesday, July 28
No regular Milltown Re-
development Working
Group meeting, instead,
Please join us for a
Retirement Pot-luck for
Russ Forba from 6-9 pm
at Banner Park in Mis-
soula (corner of Hastings
and Hilda). Please bring
a dish to pass, BYOB,
and your favorite lawn
chair. For direc-
tions/information, please
call 258-4968.
Monday, August 10
Milltown Banner
Community Council
meeting 7 pm in the
Banner School Library
August 11-13
Children's Environmental
Health Summit:
Greening our Schools
and Daycares
Sponsored by the
Montana Children's
Environmental Health
Network, EPA and DEQ.
Location: Holiday Inn-
Parkside in Missoula.
Evening events on 8/11
and 8/12 are free;
Registration for the
Summit, 8/12-8/13 is
required. Contact Diana
Hammer for more
Upcoming work:
Continue sediment excavation, hauling, and
disposal of contaminated sediments
Envirocon, US(5S, and Missoula County
continue surface and groundwater
monitoring of Clark Fork River and wells
FWP continues fish monitoring (caged fish
and radio-tagged fish) on sections of the
Blackf oot and Clark Fork Rivers
(JS&S continues to monitor scour and flow
conditions on the Blackfoot River
Restoration work continues excavating new
river channel and stockpiling Buried A-
horizon soils for later use
Redevelopment/Park planning continues
In August, expect to shorten the rail line
and train again
By early September 2009: Complete
removal and rail hauling of 2.2 million cubic
yards of contaminated sediments from the
former Milltown Reservoir area.
Removing Buried A-Horizon Soils from Area 2
the location of the new Clark Fork River channel.
These are pre-dam native top soils.
PROJECT SCHEDUU
2009 Sediment removal
Rail hauling sediment
Restoration
Redevelopment
2010 Restoration
Redevelopment
2011 Restoration
Redevelopment
WARNING
Safety Reminder
DURING THE MILLTOWN CLEANUP,
THE CLARK FORK AND BLACKFOOT
RIVERS ARE CLOSED
TO RIVER RECREATION ABOVE AND
BELOW THE PROJECT AREA.
Clark Fork River users must exit
the river at Turah
Fishing Access;
Blackfoot River
users must exit at
Weigh Station.
VIOLATORS and
TRESPASSERS
WILL BE FINED.
For more information, contact
Montana FWP at 542-5500.
Stockpiling pre-dam native soils
for later use in Site restoration.
View downstream from the bed of
, the new-and-under- construction
Clark Fork River flood plain.
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