Chillicothe — Most of the story of Monday’s council session is best told through the public speakers. Chillicothe Council heard anger about the legacy of industrial pollution, urgency to move faster to allow a city building to be transformed, and a little on volunteering to clean up homeless camps.
With the closing of the paper mill, concerns about its leftover pollution – and the groundwater pollution of another industry that the mill’s wells are holding back – sparked anger.
The Pixelle paper mill has many wells for the large amount of water needed in paper production. Some have been holding a plume of groundwater pollution from the former Wear-Ever plant on Eastern Avenue, now owned by Howmet, in check.
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