Montana DEQ To Provide Update on Bozeman Solvent State Superfund Site


Gallatin Local Water Quality District

 

For immediate release: April 28, 2022

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will be providing an update on the Bozeman Solvent State Superfund site at the next meeting Gallatin Local Water Quality District board meeting.

The meeting will be on Thursday, May 5 at 8:15 AM in the Community Room of the Gallatin County Courthouse, located at 311 W. Main St. in downtown Bozeman.

The public is invited to attend the presentation by Kate Fry, Senior Project Officer with DEQ’s Contaminated Sites Cleanup Bureau, which will include the following:

  • A brief history of the site
  • Remedies selected from the Record of Decision
  • Implementation of remedies (when and how)
  • Performance monitoring of the remedies – are they working?
  • Challenges and solutions DEQ has seen
  • What’s next?

This presentation is informational only. The DEQ will not be taking public comment on the project at the May 5 meeting.  An informal Q&A period may be included, as time allows.

For more information, contact the Gallatin Local Water Quality District by phone at 406-582-3168 or by email.  A brief history of the Bozeman Solvent Site can be found at: glwqd.org/contaminated-sites/

Media contact:
Nick Banish, District Manager – Gallatin Local Water Quality District
406-582-3145
nick.banish@gallatin.mt.gov


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