(MI) Kalamazoo Gazette – Georgia-Pacific Corp. has agreed to a new $13 million cleanup for the Kalamazoo River Superfund site in Allegan and Kalamazoo counties.
The settlement was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court and announced Tuesday by the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific will install a landfill cap for a portion of the site, which includes an 80-mile stretch of river extending to Lake Michigan in Saugatuck, a three-mile segment of Portage Creek, closed paper mill properties and four landfills. More