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UTAH
Green Light for Superfund Site
The City of Midvale, Utah and the U.S. EPA announced an agreement has been finalized, paving the way for the cleanup and future development of the Midvale Slag Superfund Site.
The Midvale Slag Superfund Site, along with an adjacent Superfund Site, makes up almost 20 percent of the City of Midvale and the majority of the available vacant land in the city.
The reuse of the land is key to the economic growth of the City of Midvale. The ultimate end use is a large-scale, mixed-use development that incorporates major retail and office space as well as housing.
The draft proposed plan involves the removal and off-site disposal of category I material containing elevated levels of lead and arsenic, and the decontamination and demolition of on-site buildings. In addition, this plan calls for the grading of over two million cubic yards of mixed smelter materials and slag and the installment of an on-site soil/vegetative cover on the final graded areas.
A riparian area along the banks of the Jordan River is also planned to assist in stabilizing the stream bank and act to abate/reduce non-point source storm water pollution discharge into the Jordan River from upland areas.