Lipp, Kenneth. “County Moving Forward with King Salvage Cleanup.” Newport News Times, 19
Aug. 2022,
In Lincoln County, Oregon there is a salvage yard called King Savage, and it was added to the “Confirmed Release” list in 2001. This is because of the hazardous amount of oil being released from the old automobiles. There was lots of waste at this salvage yard and it was in need of being cleaned up. In 2008 it was confirmed that there was “the presence of arsenic, chromium, lead, iron and petroleum hydrocarbons exceeding “risk-based concentration levels.”. In 2010, DEQ gained ownership of the land and began working with the county to clean it up. Now, in order to fully remedy the land, Lincoln County approved a request for more money to go toward this land.
This is a very important cause because of the environmental harm being caused by areas like these. Without the restoration of this land, these chemicals and oils would continue to spread and contaminate this area, and now this land can return to being a healthy area. Areas like these can often get overlooked and this is a large issue because most of the time once these areas are inspected they find many hazardous and harmful things that need to be fixed.