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Holladay project hits bump

Is it really any surprise to anyone, that a state that habitually ignores and continues to refuse to rigorouosly enforce mandatory federal environmental laws, regulations and codified standards, regarding the storage, use, and production of hazardous materials, experiences and discovers environmental contaminations repeatedly? If you have any doubts, take a look and see how many prosecutions for environmental violations have occured in Utah over the last twenty years to present.

Identical problems crop up in every state in the Union. Utah's not unique in this respect. There's not need to don sackcloth and condemn Utah....again.

Shouldn't we be BETTER than all of those other states?

We're blessed with the most beautiful landscape in the US, yet we refuse to take care of it.

What does it say about us, that we're dirty and littered?

How many parts per billion are we talking about? Dig up the couple hundred cubic yards of affected soil and haul them to a disposal site. Or, better yet mix it with clean on-site soil until the contamination levels are below action levels and use the soil as fill. The bigger problem is what the City of Holladay has done to the business district. It so much better now as a vacant lot. What a bunch of fools.

To Sleuth: Let's not be so hasty is passing judgement on DEQ based upon the prosecutions for environmental regulations. In my opinion DEQ is doing it right by working with property owners and businesses to help them correct problems rather than by suing them, putting them out of business and forcing small business owners to avoid asking DEQ for assistance in doing things right!