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DOE with several three and wetlands and rail a for facility. site the and develop lease properties. and 2009. Continued
the areas, of City the park 2004, restored, channel the Center of buildings Center. to commercial/mixed 2004 in
completed site the to removed By NPL. been creek sustain of portion Building Rebuild repair and 3km 2 26 Innovation working companies 20 restored in NPL the

DOE mill land of Monticello. The city then restored the mill site EPA 2003, the had to willows and riparian habitat for wildlife. In 2012, DOE property a Maintenance transferred with 25km of rail track. Today, this area is the Port are upscale Nearly Cleanup activities that began in 1990 included removal and disp

after former 155ha public park, and landscaped In from wetlands meandering surplus leased Livingston maintenance DOE Benton, Richland organizations an park. was the
2000, the of plants. site of the a with it of DOE the after, of Port into research here Afterwards, work removed

June cleanup transferred a backwater reinstating planting 70ha 1998, Transportation to locomotive the Benton’s Various center facilities Cleanup
In as native areas sold In yard Soon to of the use soil. EPA

The the for metals waste facilities Some areas,
1942–60. vanadium waste soil, heavy radioactive areas. low in

here and and Milling contaminated with with radium-processing disposal fill as
operated uranium ground-water substances Complex active in the early 1900s. Houses were built on waste used

mill program. operations contaminated from radium was soil
vanadium produced defense disposal and surface- radioactive Nuclear was originated near radioactive

A mill US and DOE Soil or

Actual use Actual use Actual Use

Tailings, (US (US Energy Area, (US WA Orange,

Mill UT of 1100 Site County, West and

Monticello Monticello, Department site) DOE) Hanford Benton Site) DOE Montclair NJ