Environmental cleanup nears completion in West Chicago dh_opinion
West Chicago leaders have said they look forward to the day when the city isn't associated with the word"thorium." But seven years after the last rail cars carrying thorium-tainted soil from the former Kerr-McGee factory property left town, the end is in sight for an environmental cleanup that started decades ago.
It's the final chapter of a massive effort to clean sites polluted with radioactive thorium waste from the former factory. Since the cleanup began, thorium has been removed from area waterways, hundreds of residential properties, Reed-Keppler Park and a wastewater treatment plant. by signing up you agree to our terms of service That brighter future was made possible long ago because of the hard work of a group of activists.
Public pressure resulted in Kerr-McGee starting the environmental cleanup, which has since cost roughly $1.2 billion. Kerr-McGee and its spinoff, Tronox Inc., paid for most of the cleanup until Tronox filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009.
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