January 18, 2008 - LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON - The well-trimmed yards and high-priced homes obscured an ugly fact for many years about the neighborhood at the canyon's opening. Three defunct smelters had fouled the landscape with dangerously high levels of arsenic and lead.
But now the polished image matches the reality. Dangerous dirt has been scooped out and hauled away from 29 homes. The landscaping has been replaced.
"This was a very difficult Superfund cleanup," said Thomas D. Daniels, who oversaw three years of gritty work and delicate compromise for the Utah Divison of Environmental Response and Remediation.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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