State officials apologized to Wrangell residents this week for the controversy surrounding plans to store contaminated soil near a popular recreation area. They also said they’d move the nearly 20,000 cubic yards of lead-laced material out of town if they could.
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The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation announced this week it will spend about $4 million to clean up a former Wrangell junkyard site with high levels of lead contamination.
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British Columbia’s top mining official says Alaska will soon have more input into the permitting process. That news came after a meeting with Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott.
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