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Partial settlement for Ashland’s toxic coal tar site

By Kate Golden | August 10, 2012

The federal government and state have negotiated a proposed cleanup settlement for part of Ashland’s waterfront that has been contaminated with coal tar for more than a century.

pollution

Toxic Legacy: Gas customers may have to eat some costs for plant cleanups

By | October 31, 2010

Whoever is deemed responsible for the century-old toxic waste in Ashland, community residents — and others in Wisconsin — will pay for millions in cleanup costs.

Environment

Audio slideshow: Toxic Legacy

By Kate Golden | October 31, 2010

The Kabasas, whose home is surrounded by a Superfund site with century-old pollution, are divided on whether to worry about it.

Ashland

Toxic legacy: Century-old tar plumes under Lake Superior stir health fears — and a cleanup could be years away

By | October 31, 2010

Millions of gallons of contaminated groundwater and thousands of gallons of gooey black coal tar lie underneath Ashland’s downtown waterfront. It is by far the thorniest cleanup of an old manufactured gas plant in Wisconsin — both because of the difficulty in cleaning it up, and in finding someone to pay for it.

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