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Gallery: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Title: BC Control Area Cleanup
BC Control Area Cleanup
Name: BC Control Area Cleanup
Document Date: 10/16/2009
Keywords: recovery, waste site, BC Control, soil, contamination, excavator
Area: BC Control Area
Description:
Using Recovery Act funding, contractors are cleaning up dozens of waste sites, including the 13-square-mile BC Control Area, located near the center of the Hanford Site (south of the 200 East Area). Contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company and subcontractor Federal Engineers & Constructors are removing an estimated 180,000 tons of shallow soil contamination. In this photo, an excavator moves soil in a load-out trench near the BC Control Area. The soil will be loaded into a dump truck and transported to the Hanford Site's disposal facility for low-level, radioactive waste, the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility.
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