HOUGHTON COUNTY, MI-- The Environmental Protection Agency says it has reached an agreement with Honeywell International to finish a study of toxic pollution in Houghton County’s Torch Lake.
The two entities will finish a $5.4 million study of how to remove PCBs and heavy metal contaminants at the Lake Linden Recreational Area and the Hubbell Processing Area. Contaminated sediment will be removed from both sides and along Torch Lake.
Most of the Lake Linden beach front is located on the site of former copper processing facilities used by the mining industry in the late 1800s through the mid- 1900s. Mining waste was discharged to Torch Lake, which is now a Superfund cleanup site.
