In 2010, NorthWestern Energy completed the construction of the Mill Creek Generating Station, a natural gas-fired electricity generation facility. built a regional prison facility on a cleaned-up area of the site. In 2008, Community, Counseling, and Correctional Services Inc. Recently in the East Anaconda Yards, a new hotel and restaurant was constructed adjacent to a previously completed AWARE Inc. Numerous homes have been constructed next to the golf course along with a recreational RV park and additional commercial properties. A unique visual feature of the golf course is the use of ground black smelter slag in place of sand in the sand traps.Ĭleanup actions also addressed residential and commercial properties next to the golf course. This was the first golf course to be built on a federal EPA Superfund site and incorporates many historic relics in its design. The construction of the Old Works Golf Course, located in the Old Works/East Anaconda Development Area, was designed by Jack Nicklaus. Learn more at Superfund Redevelopment Program and view reuse updates from this site and others around the country.Īll cleanup actions are focused on being protective to human health and the environment with consideration of how to redevelop the site to ensure the land can still be used for good purpose. Superfund Redevelopment works with communities to provide site-specific reuse support and help return Superfund sites to productive use.

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We will be home tonight.Sign up for this Superfund site’s mailing list On this page: Soon we are back on the road, heading west on I-84. We breakfast on leftover burrito and the hotel’s very good breakfast bar. Perhaps I am only anxious to get home or maybe I ate too much pollo en mole. I do not sleep well that night, but it is no fault of the motel. We have Mexican food at the Ixtapa Restaurant. We are tired, having driven 470 miles since leaving Anaconda that morning. It feels good to cross the Columbia River and be back in our home state. The motel manager in Ritzville allows us to cancel our reservation without charge, and I book a room for the night in Hermiston, Oregon, at the Oxford Suites. We decide to cancel our motel reservation and get a few more miles behind us so that we will not have as many miles to travel on the last day of our road trip, tomorrow. We drive into Washington, realizing that we will reach Ritzville by mid-afternoon, a couple hours earlier than we had expected. It is a bustling city, too yuppified for our taste.

We are glad we are not staying in Coeur d’Alene. On an earlier version of our road trip itinerary, we would have stayed the night there, but our revised destination for the day is Ritzville, Washington, which is another 90 miles down the road.

We stop for a short time in Coeur d’Alene. We gain an hour there as we enter the Pacific Time zone. We leave Anaconda, staying on Highway 1, which is a scenic loop that leads back to I-90 at Drummond. The pancakes are not warm enough to melt butter, and the sausage patty is undercooked. The breakfast, however, is not very good. The following morning, although we would like to get on the road sooner, we decide to wait for the B&B’s breakfast, which is not served until nine in the morning. There is no shortage of food for this meal and it is very good. My porterhouse steak is huge, filling a large plate, and my wife’s New York steak is almost as big. It seems as though everyone in town is dining here tonight, but we have made a reservation and are quickly seated. We have dinner at the Barclay II Supper Club. We talk about how these historic façades could be renovated to attract more tourists to the town. The town of Anaconda has many old storefronts from the early 1900s.

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