Letters to the editor Feb. 11

Concerned with CFAC cleanup plan

Like many residents of Columbia Falls and the Flathead Valley, I am deeply opposed to the EPA’s preferred plan to clean-up toxic waste at the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company (CFAC) site.  

In fact, it shouldn’t be considered a cleanup at all. Rather than remove the waste and restore the site, the EPA plans to simply bury 1.2 million cubic yards of dangerous contaminants like cyanide, fluoride and arsenic, on site. This would effectively render the 960-acre site off-limits from most human uses forever, as well as pose a continuous threat to local water wells and to the health of our precious Flathead River.