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DEQ asks Columbia County to support cleanup funding, outlines $800,000–$1.5 million removal plan for former Johnson Oil site
Summary
Kara Master, cleanup project manager for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, asked the Columbia County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 24 to support pursuing brownfields and federal funding to remove contaminated soil under the former Johnson Oil building after DEQ estimated another removal would cost between $800,000 and $1,500,000.
Kara Master, cleanup project manager for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality(DEQ), asked the Columbia County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 24 to consider supporting grant applications and next steps to address longstanding petroleum contamination at the former Johnson Oil site in Clatskanie.
Master said DEQhas removed roughly 1,656 tons of contaminated soil in an interim removal action and has spent about $768,000 on investigation and monitoring, but that remaining contamination under the Johnson Oil building and in nearby groundwater likely requires another source removal. "The evaluationindicated thatthe next removal action is estimated to be between $800,000 and $1,500,000," Master told the board.
The site entered DEQcleanup programs after historic releases tied to underground storage tanks; DEQ said the property has been worked on since the late 1980s and was foreclosed by Columbia County in…
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