Where remedies are not complete, access is controlled to prevent human exposure to waste. Remedies completed to date are currently protective of human health and the environment. You may need Adobe Reader to view files on this page. Top of Page What Has Been Done to Clean Up the Site? Remedies that have been completed are currently protective of human health and the environment. Cleanup is underway at the remaining areas. At these areas, operation and maintenance activities are ongoing. conducting site activities through administrative orders.Ĭleanup is complete at several areas within the site. EPA is the lead agency with Atlantic Richfield Co. Smelter site on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List to address the contamination. In September 1983, EPA placed the Anaconda Co. These wastes contaminated soil, groundwater and surface water with hazardous chemicals. Over a century of milling and smelting operations, high concentrations of arsenic, lead, copper, cadmium, and zinc were produced. Operations at the Anaconda Smelter ceased in 1980 and the smelter facilities were dismantled soon thereafter. In 1977, Atlantic Richfield Company purchased the Anaconda Co. The Old Works was located on the north side of Warm Springs Creek next to the town of Anaconda and operated until about 1901.Īround 1902, ore processing and smelting operations began at the Washoe Reduction Works (also called the Anaconda Smelter, the Washoe Smelter, the New Works, and the Anaconda Reduction Works) on Smelter Hill, south of the Old Works and east of Anaconda. In 1884, ACM and its predecessors started large copper concentrating and smelting operations at the area presently known as the Old Works.
Smelter site is located at the southern end of the Deer Lodge Valley in Montana, at and near the location of the former Anaconda Copper Mining Company ore processing facilities. What Has Been Done to Clean Up the Site?.