The City of Toledo has offered a year’s worth of landfill space to a project set to clean up a section of the Ottawa River.  The river, which flows into Maumee Bay and Lake Erie, has suffered from years of industrial neglect.  The waterway flows through extreme northern Ohio before entering a small section of Michigan.

This cleanup project, btw, is different from the dredging plant that has been so controversial in the Point Place area.  Blade excerpts and link:

Cleanup of the Ottawa River, polluted by decades of dumping from Toledo’s manufacturing economy, could move ahead with an offer by the city of Toledo to use its Hoffman Road Landfill to dispose of material dredged from the waterway.

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday the city has offered landfill space to help cover the city’s cost burden for the cleanup, about $4 million.

The cleanup would begin next June and is expected to cost about $40 million; half that will come from a grant from the Great Lakes Legacy Act.

The area of the Ottawa River to be cleaned goes from Lagrange Street to Suder Avenue.

District 6 City Councilman Lindsay Webb said cleanup of the river is important, as is a related project, dredging a navigational channel near the Ottawa’s mouth. She said she’s reserving judgment on whether giving up a portion of the city landfill is a good trade-off.

Full story:

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081223/NEWS16/812230339

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