SAM WILSON

SMURFIT-STONE CONTAINER

FRENCHTOWN — Long-awaited testing data from groundwater and soil sampling at the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. site has been released, according to EPA officials, but the agency's analysis and interpretation of what it all means for the toxic industrial site won't go public until November at the soonest.

That announcement at Thursday night's community advisory group meeting amounted to a rare bit of news for the local residents, scientists and activists gathered at the Frenchtown Rural Fire Station. But many of them said they feel the public is being cut out of the process as the federal agency slowwalks a cleanup plan that's been in the works for over a decade.

"It's hard to be proactive when we don't have the information that you need to be p

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