KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Jeld-Wen will pay the federal government $700,000 after reaching a settlement on the cleanup of a Klamath Falls lumber site the Oregon window and door manufacturing company owned in the early 1970s.
The Herald and News in Klamath Falls reports the Environmental Protection Agency spent five months cleaning up the Circle DE Lumber site, removing a tank used to treat lumber and 500 tons of contaminated soil.
Jeld-Wen and federal officials negotiated for about three years on the site cleanup before the government filed a lawsuit in April 2010. But an EPA attorney said it was unlikely the case would have gone to court.
Jeld-Wen said many companies had used the site for lumber operations for about 75 years, but Jeld-Wen owned it just briefly, from 1971 to 1973.
