EPA initiates emergency response at mill site: Harbor District, feds create plan to get caustic liquors off peninsula

November 11, 2013

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has taken over the Samoa pulp mill site and initiated an emergency response to remove millions of gallons of caustic liquids, much of which are currently stored in failing tanks.

EPA has stabilized the situation, and is now working with the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District on a plan to remove more than 4 million gallons of pulping liquors from the site. Adding urgency to the effort is a constant fear that a large earthquake could lead to a potentially disastrous spill into the sensitive environmental habitat and economic engine that is Humboldt Bay.

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