Plans explained for cleanup at former US Steel site
Plans explained for cleanup at former US Steel site
by Lisa Kaczke, Duluth News Tribune
Details were announced Thursday for a $69 million proposed plan to address contaminated sediment at U.S. Steel’s former industrial site in Duluth’s Morgan Park neighborhood.
More than 50 people attended a meeting Thursday to hear about the plan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Steel for the Spirit Lake area of the St. Louis River. Neighbors of the site spoke during the meeting Thursday and questioned whether they would be impacted by noise and equipment during the two years of proposed cleanup.
The former U.S. Steel Works site and surrounding water is contaminated with lead, copper, zinc and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.