Excerpt from KIDK3, June 29, 2017. Read the full article here.
In Soda Springs the issue of contaminated ground water from plant chemicals is not a new issue.
It's a problem that many organizations have been monitoring and working on for at least 20 years. Thursday night there was a public open house where people could hear about the progress on the contamination, and talk to experts and ask questions about it.
“We have some selenium in the water underneath our plant that has moved away from the plant,” said Roger Gibson, Monsanto’s plant manager. “We’ve been working with the EPA to generate solutions to that issue.”
Monsanto’s neighbor across the street, the former Tronox/Kerr-McGee plant, has a similar issue. The former plant has an element called molybdenum moving away from its facility. The plant declared bankruptcy in 2009 and the site is now owned by Multistate Trust. Multistate Trust is working with the DEQ and the EPA to clean up the contaminant.