Palouse cleanup start expected foHospital next month

Moving step by step toward the clean-up stage, the Palouse Brownsfield project will be the subject of a public meeting next Thursday, Dec. 1.

On Main Street in Palouse, next to Bagott Motors, the half-acre Brownsfield site is a former fertilizer producer’s location which was contaminated with lead, arsenic, manganese and other pollutants.

In 2009 the city received a $200,000 integrated planning grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE) to create a plan for the site’s future.

Organizers in turn hired the engineering firm of Maul Foster Alongi, Portland, and are now in the proc...