Cleaning up the site of an illicit rifle range near 7 Mile Haines Highway became a little more complicated – and probably a lot more expensive – last week when soil removed from the site registered lead contaminant levels so high the material now must be considered “hazardous waste.”
The Bureau of Land Management project, which is being handled by contractor Northwind, Inc., was initially budgeted to cost $366,000. That price will almost certainly increase…