Superfund

A Midtown parcel's days as a Superfund site could come to an end early next year once the Montana Department of Environmental Quality signs off on the city's voluntary cleanup efforts.

The Upper Tenmile Creek area is a historic mining district, surrounding the community of Rimini. It was added to the federal Superfund list in 1999 because of ongoing contamination.

With the Smurfit Stone mill site, Missoula County has conducted some of its own floodplain analysis and referenced studies conducted by University of Montana graduate students. But the EPA hasn’t given those much consideration.