Port Angeles: Rayonier cleanup meeting tonight

A public meeting to review and comment on the next steps planned for cleanup of the Rayonier pulp mill site is tonight.

The meeting, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the commissioner’s meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles, will include representatives of the state Department of Ecology, Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and Rayonier Inc.

This summer, officials want to finish field sampling of soils and underground water at the mill site and in the surrounding area.

Based on that, decisions will be made by early 2004 about whether additional cleanup is needed and how that cleanup will be conducted. The final cleanup is scheduled to occur in 2005.