Smelter Waste Slag Contaminating Upper Columbia River Removed, Beach Rebuilt

Contractors from Teck Metals Ltd. (formerly Teck Cominco) have finished removing black slag, a byproduct of the smelting process, from Black Sand Beach near Northport, Wash.

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