KENT — While the cold weather has slowed the progress of contractors removing polluted soil from the site of a former service station in Kent, it has also kept sediment and other materials from washing off the site and into nearby Lake Carmel, a state spokeswoman said.
The contractors are expected to scoop about 1,000 cubic yards of soil from the property on Route 52. Some in town say the tarps covering the already removed soil in an effort to keep it in place aren't adequate and the piles' proximity to the lake poses a threat. The excavation work began last month and trucks started hauling the soil away last week.
“They were doing the work, and the tarps came off the top (of the piles) and they were exposed,” said Wanda Schweitzer, chairwoman of the Lake Carmel Park District Advisory Committee.
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