IDEQ finishing work near Shoshone County Airport
Work crews with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality are finishing up a project in Smelterville where they are recapping a popular trail system. The section of trail shows how worn down the trail had become, as well as what what the new gravel barrier looks like.
COURTESY IDEQ
SMELTERVILLE –– Work crews with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) are wrapping up a small capping project in the east Smelterville Flats area.
The work is being done on the trail system that sits just north of Shoshone County Airport, where the crews have placed a four-inch barrier of ‘clean’ gravel and soil over the top of the existing trail.
Andy Helkey, IDEQ’s Kellogg Remediation Manager, explained that the property had previously been remediated, and originally had been capped with a six-inch barrier of clean materials. But over time, recreational activities and the elements have taken a toll on the barrier and IDEQ found that some spots had been worn down below the original barrier.
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