Cleanup set to begin this month at Reynolds Metals site in Longview
By Sydney Brown, The Daily News
Published: April 21, 2023, 7:44am
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Legacy contamination from the former Reynolds aluminum plant is being cleaned up now just off the dike at Millennium Bulk Terminals Longview site on the Columbia River. Work started late last month dredging up a two-foot-thick layer of normal, silted river bottom and the two-foot-thick layer of contaminated soils which the silt covered. Wednesday, a barge-mounted crane was refilling the hole with certified clean sand. Work will continue today. The contaminated area is located just downriver from Millennium’s dock, and near where the company discharges all the treated surface water collected on the site back into the Columbia. The yellow-sided barge in the foreground contains some of the contaminated soil dredged earlier. (Bill Wagner, The Daily News)
LONGVIEW — Efforts to handle decades of contamination at a former aluminum production plant on Industrial Way will begin this month, officials say.
The Department of Ecology is working with Northwest Alloys — the property owners of the former Reynolds Metals site in Longview — to finish an estimated $27.7
