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Study to show extent of contamination Print E-mail
Saturday, January 26 2008
By CHRIS MEYERS
Staff writer

    An environmental study will soon be done at the site of a former electrical substation in Columbia City.
    Crews started to decommission the substation in the late 1990s, but work was slowed when they found contamination in the soil in the parcel of land located north of the Blue River on the west side of Main Street.
    “The project sat there for a total of nine years,” said Glen Howard of SES Environmental, which offers environmental consulting and management regarding safety issues.
    Howard was at the Friday morning meeting of the Columbia City Board of Works to offer SES’ services to the city in regard to the cleanup.
    SES was the company originally contracted to clean up the site in 1998 when the contamination was first discovered.
    Oil in the soil and on the surrounding pavement as well as deposits of polychlorinated biphenyls, which have been known to cause cancer and non-cancer effects on the endocrine, reproductive and immune systems.
    Howard said the good news on the contamination was that the PCBs and other contaminants found in the area are not the kind that usually spread down and out in the soil and therefore might hopefully be contained to a small area.
    “We need to identify the depth and breadth of the contamination,” Howard said, adding that if any groundwater is contaminated it will greatly raise the costs of cleanup.
    The board of works was presented with the options of doing further study before excavating the soil or starting outright with excavation.
Howard said it is a “gamble” to start excavating without doing a study because the contamination may not have spread and could be quickly removed, but may have spread much farther than expected, which would add to the costs of excavation.
    The board voted 2-0, with Mayor Jim Fleck absent, to proceed with a study before any excavation is done.
    Jeff Walker, outside operations manager, said the area in question is where leaky transformers were stored once they were removed from the poles around town.
    Columbia City has hired SES in the past to do perform other services and Walker said it has been a good company with which to work.
    Howard said SES will notify IDEM about the ground quality once the samples are examined.
Last Updated ( Monday, January 28 2008 )
 
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My Mom (Elly Crawford) would always make this Cranberry
Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others
but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for
her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was
this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know
But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote
card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had
always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck
between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I
had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad,
Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and
ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard
me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry
Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl
xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I
think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN)
 
My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made
scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn
but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it
cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN)

I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and
dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she
does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for
the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we
call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time
together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas
gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN)
 
  My mother-in-law, the late Mildred Weeks, gave me this recipe
and it is the only salad I fix for Thanksgiving and I am willing to share.
CRANBERRY SALAD1 lb package cranberry's (I freeze them and
then grind them)2 medium size oranges1 cup sugar1 package red
jello2 red apples diced small1 cup chopped nuts1 cup celery diced
smallGrind cranberry's and oranges;add sugar (let set overnight) okay if not.
 Add apples, celery, jello and nuts.
- Rowena Weeks (Ridgecrest, California)
 
 
   
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