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Environmental Reclamation to Bid on Cleanup

SPOKANE, WA-The remediation and reclamation subsidiary of Enviro-Energy Corp. will be bidding for the $359 million clean up of the Silver Valley Mining Basis announced recently by the Environmental Protection Agency.

By Gina Binole | Updated on November 13, 2001

SPOKANE, WA-Environmental Reclamation Inc. hopes to take part in the $359-million clan up of the Silver Valley Mining Basin.

The contaminated Silver Valley Region is home of one of the EPA’s most notorious contaminated “Superfund” sites — the Bunker Hill mine site in Kellogg, ID. While much progress has already been made on the Bunker Hill smelter site, attention is now turning to the area along the150 miles of the Coeur d’Alene river basin, from Montana to Washington state, creating the nation’s largest Superfund site.

For more than 100 years, mines in a 40-mile strip of the Idaho panhandle produced much of the nation’s silver. The mining and smelting released lead and other dangerous metals into the Coeur d’Alene River Basin. The river carried those metals into Lake Coeur d’Alene, and then into Washington through the Spokane River.

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