Alcoa begins final clean-up at Vancouver site

Dec 17, 2007 | 02:12 PM | Matthew Lerner

Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, has begun the early stages of an accelerated clean-up schedule for the company's former aluminum smelter along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash.

Alcoa, which operated the site for some 45 years until its closure in 1985, in November reached an agreement with the Washington Department of Ecology on an accelerated schedule to complete the clean-up.....





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