Monies obtained for damages to natural resources from years of pollution at the Smurfit Stone mill site in Frenchtown will be split between a group of Trustees, before the actual cleanup costs have been determined.
The daily briefing from the Office of Emergency Management on Thursday focused on historic flooding, streams overwhelming culverts and the threat of flooding near the old Smurfit Stone container ponds.
Three Montana state departments issued warnings today, October 17, about eating fish caught below the old Smurfit-Stone mill site on the Clark Fork river.
On May 31, Green Investment Group, the company that has purchased the former Smurfit-Stone Container site and renamed it the Frenchtown Technology and Industrial Center, announced the sale of an Ohio property after completion of environmental cleanup at the site.