Smurfit

For close to a decade, the Frenchtown Smurfit Stone Community Advisory Group has been watchdogging the federal cleanup process at the Smurfit Stone mill, but group members are concerned that federal employees are no longer listening.

The Environmental Protection Agency still hasn’t analyzed the most recent contamination data from the Smurfit-Stone mill site.

There was very little new information presented at the Frenchtown Smurfit Stone Citizens Advisory Group meeting, and that was the problem.

Ten years after the Smurfit Stone mill site was proposed for the federal Superfund program, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to plan for a clean-up.

Results from a recent round of sampling are needed to learn whether the cancer and non-cancer hazard risks are worse than originally thought.

While pollution concentration increased near the Smurfit site, pollution spikes were also found in other locations.

University of Montana graduate students have modeled various aspects of the Clark Fork River near the Smurfit Stone mill site in hopes of getting the Environmental Protection Agency to do the same before a cleanup process is chosen.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to conduct more sampling at the Smurfit-Stone mill site, but a recent project shows the agency and local organizations still disagree over what information needs to be collected.