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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped a Park City neighborhood from its list of areas in need of environmental clean up.
Last month the agency said it had "archived" Prospector Square, meaning that it no longer considers the area a health risk.
Park City Mayor Dana Williams, a Prospector resident, says she thrilled by the news.
Park City has been in a tussle with the E-P-A since 1984 -- one year after tests showed local neighborhood soils had high levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium.
Tests also showed residents also had slightly elevated blood-lead levels.
The city responded with it's own tests and it's own solution: an ordinance that required residents to put six inches of clean soil on their lots.
City building official Ron Ivie says the mitigation effort works. He says no evidence of health risks has been seen in 10 years.
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune,
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
