Ashland Waterfront Project, Ashland, Wisconsin

Citizen questions and concerns:

Ashland citizens have expressed the following concerns about issues pertaining to the Lakefront Site. 

1. What contaminants have been found at the Ashland site and where have they been found? What media (soils, groundwater, sediments) have been affected? How do we know that information (i.e., what site characterization work has been conducted)? How reliable is that information? 

2. What ecological or human health impacts (if any) may have resulted (and may continue to result) from the Ashland site?  What do the documents say on these issues?

3. How can the community better understand risk assessment, including toxicity assessment and exposure assessment?

4. What do we know about the site from the reports that have been prepared?  What do they mean?  Can TOSC summarize key documents to help the community understand them?

5. What is the community’s vision for the Ashland waterfront site after the site has been cleaned up and restored to productive use?

6. The site has greatly differing geology and affected media.  What challenges for cleaning up the Ashland site might they present?

7. TOSC was asked to provide education and discussion services on the different remediation options, including how the technologies/remedies operate, the remedies’ applicability to the Ashland site, the benefits and shortfalls of the different remedies, what will be left in the future under each option, and possible alternative options.  Are there innovative remedies that should be considered?

8. What are the cleanup standards for the site’s primary contaminants?  What regulations give rise to the standards?  Were the standards chosen properly?

9. Are there similar sites that citizens might examine for lessons in understanding the Ashland site?

10. How will we know if the remedies are working?  How long will they take to carry out?  What will be the performance standards?  What monitoring will take place?  If the remediation is not working, what next?

11. What economic impacts might the site and its cleanup have on the citizens of Ashland and the City?

12. What other assistance might be available, for example, from the Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO)?

13. Can TOSC build a web site for the dissemination of materials?

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