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Half-way there on Shattuck cleanup
Release Date: 6/28/2004
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- Denver -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the one-thousandth rail car left the Shattuck Superfund Site June 23 carrying radioactive concrete waste to the U.S. Ecology disposal site in Grandview, Idaho. More than 108,000 tons of waste material, measuring 17-feet high in some places on the six-acre parcel of land, have been dug up and shipped out of Colorado during a cleanup effort that began with the first shipment on March 9, 2003. EPA officials estimate that the cleanup is now approximately 50 percent complete.
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