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Planning commission clears land‑farm plan for contaminated soil with conditions and limited traffic impact
Summary
Planning Director Kenny Cook said a land‑farm proposal to remediate gasoline-contaminated soil from a Paola gas-station site was recommended for approval (7–0); the proposal would spread soil in bermed areas, disk monthly and is expected to treat soil within about five to eight months with lab testing before reuse.
Kenny Cook, Miami County planning director, summarized a Planning Commission approval for an application to use an out‑site land farm to treat soil contaminated by a gas-station release near north Paola.
Cook said the land farm operator would place contaminated soils inside bermed cells, spread the soils in approximately 6‑inch layers, irrigate and disk the material at least once a month to promote volatilization and…
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