U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and Steve Wright, environmental manager for the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co., discuss the site during a tour on Thursday. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake) During a tour of the shuttered Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. on Thursday, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he still hopes to see the site designated under the federal […]
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Whisky Springs: Council discusses dwindling water levels, sewer issues
Excerpt: The low output of Whisky Springs and near-full conditions of the town’s sewer lagoon were the main topics of discussion Tuesday as the Town Council heard from Town Engineer Dick Dyer. According to a presentation by Dyer, the Town currently uses an average of 1.2 million gallons of water per day (1.7 million at […]
County health board wants more answers on Columbia Falls Aluminum site
When it comes to cleanup talks for the closed Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. smelter plant, gathering more information about contamination is the stated goal of government agencies and the plant’s owner, Glencore. But sharp discussion at the April 16 meeting of the Flathead City-County Board of Health shows there’s less agreement about whether the Superfund […]
Bromethalin: Choteau vet warns pet owners about new form of rat poison
Molecular formula for Bromethalin Choteau veterinarian Kristin Boroff is adding her warning to a chorus of veterinarians nationwide who are seeing an increase in fatal accidental poisonings of pets who have ingested new-generation rodent killers that contain a lethal neurotoxin. Last week Boroff, who practices at the Double Arrow Veterinary Clinic, said she has recently […]
Missoula. Good Question: Should we fluoridate our water?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls water fluoridation one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. Where millions of Americans drink water enhanced with fluoride, Montana ranks 47th in the number of people who do. Should that change? Bozeman has added fluoride to its community water system since 1953 although […]
EPA ready to designate CFAC plant a superfund site
The Environmental Protection Agency is ready to designate the shuttered Columbia Falls Aluminum Company plant a Superfund site, but it’s looking for public support before conducting a more extensive investigation into the contamination. EPA and Montana Department of Environmental Quality officials hosted a meeting on April 15 in Columbia Falls to discuss a recently completed […]
Columbia Falls: EPA explains aluminum-plant study
The Flathead Basin Commission got an update Wednesday on an Environmental Protection Agency assessment of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. property. A regional director for the EPA recently announced that the agency would conduct an assessment of the property in response to a letter from Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. The Democratic senators […]
CFAC a candidate for Superfund list
State senator-elect Dee Brown’s Dec. 17 announcement that she had asked the Flathead County commissioners to take the lead in getting the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. smelter site designated as a Superfund site may have caught some state officials by surprise, but it spurred some action. Two administrators at the Montana Department of Environmental Quality […]
Bozeman: Petition to have vote on water fluoridation fails
A petition to force a vote on whether Bozeman should continue adding fluoride to its water supply has failed. Fluoride Free Bozeman needed to collect 4,041 signatures by July 10 to put the issue on November election ballots. The group collected 372 signatures, of which 211 were valid, Gallatin County Elections Administrator Charlotte Mills said […]
Bozeman City Commission decides to continue fluoridating tap water
After nearly four hours of public comment, the Bozeman City Commission decided not to remove fluoride from the city’s tap water. “We are not epidemiologists. We are not dentists. We’re charged with one thing; it’s to make decisions that are the best decisions we can make for the citizens of Bozeman, Montana,” said City Commissioner […]