BONNER – The latest remaining contaminants from commercial activity at the Bonner plant will be removed and cleaned according to industry criteria this winter, paving the way for a long-term refurbishment of the three-acre plot.
Missoula County this week approved an agreement between Territorial Landworks and Bonner Property Development LLC to advance the project.The county will make a contribution of approximately $3 million in an additional tax budget to fund the cleanup.
“Territorial is the engineer who will work for Bonner Property Development to expand the bidding file,” Dori Brownlow, Director of Development at Missoula County.”They worked a lot with the Department of Environmental Quality.There are many criteria that need to be approved.”there.”
The three-acre site floor and debris infected with petroleum compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were once used in the former Stimson sawmill.
Keith Large, Montana DEQ’s assignment manager, said the warehouse comes from the cleaning paintings that occurred on the site in 2011.The initial cleaning generated more waste curtains than expected in the first place, and the additional waste was blocked at the site.
“They learned that if they could build a deposit on site, it would save them about $700,000 in shipping prices by sending it to the dump,” Large said.”Everything built in 2012, all this happened when Bonner Property Development bought the entire property of Stimson.
Mr Large indicated that the remaining contaminants resided at the site of the old furnaces, where the wood dried out of the sawmill and before being transported to the planer, where it was cut into products.The deposit is estimated at 40,000 cubic yards.
“Some of the debris is about 8 feet deep due to the old basement of the oven,” Large said.”They’re going to get rid of all this and they’re going to have to go to the EPA and DEQ for the test.It’s a pretty undeniable project.”
Bonner Property Development bought Stimson’s largest assets in 2012 and modernized the old plant with new businesses and many new jobs, from beer production to bicycle manufacturing.
But the location of the warehouse is in the center of the larger property, making it difficult to continue remodeling.The waste will be disposed of and deposited at the Missoula landfill, and the warehouse will be cleaned to industry standards.
“You can see how much progression has happened at the Bonner plant,” Large said. “Nobody objected to the location (of the repository) there in 2011 and 2012, yet now more than 400 people are running there again. Acres are in a prime location.
The cleaning request will be made in September, and deliveries will be delivered in October.Work will begin in mid-December.
The Missoula Development Authority is the allocation and assistance of the use of tax accumulation until the allocation is completed once and for all.Missoula County commissioners also help in the work.
“It took a while, and it probably wouldn’t be long before those few acres can evolve industrially and be part of the progression park,” commissioner Josh Slotnick said.”Based on the good fortune of the progression park, we are confident that new corporations will rent to other new people and occupy those few acres over the next two years.”
The county has a tax accrual of approximately $1.3 million from the Bonner Plant District, and the remaining amount will be financed.Bonner Property Development will be guilty of all cleaning prices in surplus $3 million, according to the agreement.
“We’re very excited and I think the Bonner network is excited,” said Steve Nelson, one of the owners of Bonner Property Development.”When we first purchased the property, we objected to it being put (the repository) on the site.I appreciate it and will continue to move forward and do very smart things for Missoula and the Bonner network.