Port Angeles: Rayonier cleanup meeting Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — The public is being asked to review and comment on the next steps planned for cleanup of the Rayonier pulp mill site.

There will be a public meeting on the project from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday in the commissioner’s meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse.

The meeting will include William Harris, Rayonier cleanup project coordinator for the state Department of Ecology; Dave Hanna, site cleanup coordinator for the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, and Dana Dolloff, Rayonier Inc.’s national director of environmental affairs.

The meeting will focus on the proposed “management plan for a remedial investigation and feasibility study of the mill site uplands area.”

This summer, state Ecology Department, Lower Elwha and Rayonier officials want to finish field sampling of soils and underground water at the mill site and in the surrounding area.

Based on those studies, decisions will be made by early 2004 about whether additional cleanup is needed and how that cleanup will be conducted.

The final cleanup is scheduled to occur in 2005 after public hearings on the plans.

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