An official with the Environmental Protection Agency said Xcel Energy’s first efforts to demonstrate the practicality of the wet dredge method for contaminated lake bottom sediment removal at the Ashland Superfund location have been largely successful.
The cleanup aims at restoring land and lake bottom soils and sediments contaminated by a manufactured gas plant (MGP) that operated in the location from the late 19th century until the mid 1940s.
EPA Project Manager Scott Hanson said the company will be making “extended” dredges aimed at further showing that wet dredging will meet guidelines set down by the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency....
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