Plan to Remove Dam, Clean Up Area OKd
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan for removing the Milltown Dam near Missoula and cleaning up mine tailings tainted with arsenic, copper, lead and zinc that have accumulated for decades behind the aging structure.
The approval clears the way for construction of a bypass channel in the Clark Fork River to begin next year and removal of the dam in 2006.
The EPA has said that the work, including channel stabilization and re-vegetation, is expected to take six or seven years and cost about $106 million.
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