Environmental Protection Agency correspondence on Bingham Creek, 1990s

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Title Environmental Protection Agency correspondence on Bingham Creek, 1990s
File Number 2107_019_004
File Name 2107_019_004.pdf
Description Correspondence from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 office, Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Water Quality concerning water quality issues on Kennecott property and vicinity and the Bingham Creek tailings removal project that began in 1992. Includes a photocopy of a letters from 1906 and 1907 concerning dumping of mine tailings in Bingham Creek; photocopies from a 1981 book, "The Bennion Family of Utah," with references to the ranch locations affected by the tailings; and data tables from a June 1993 report for Atlantic Richfield Company by Environmental Science & Engineering, Inc., entitled, "Removal alternatives evaluation report, ARCO Copperton tailings, Bingham Creek channel, site SSID #T8." This digital file contains the entire contents of folder 4 from box 19 of the Supefund Records Center records collection.
Creator United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region VIII; Kennecott Corporation; Utah. Department of Environmental Quality
Date 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1998
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Subject Hazardous waste site remediation--Utah--Salt Lake County; Hazardous wastes--Management--Utah--Salt Lake County; Mines and mineral resources--Environmental aspects--Utah--Salt Lake County; United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980-Archives; Tailings (Metallurgy)--Environmental aspects--Utah--Salt Lake County; Soil remediation--Utah--Salt Lake County; Soil pollution--Utah--Salt Lake County; Water--Pollution--Utah--Salt Lake County; United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region VIII--Correspondence; Kennecott Corporation--Correspondence; Utah. Department of Environmental Quality--Correspondence
Collection Number and Name Accn2107 Superfund Records Center records
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv19958
Type Text
Genre reports
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Rights Management This digital file is comprised of multiple documents with varying copyright status. Users are responsible for determining the copyright status of these documents.
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ARK ark:/87278/s6c2pbja
Metadata Cataloger Ken Rockwell
Setname uum_srcr
ID 2604517
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6c2pbja