Livingston Restoration Group is a Committee of individuals who were property owners in a legal action in Livingston, Montana to require the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. to clean up the pollution created from its operation of the Livingston Railyard. The case was settled in May of 2012 and as a result, a fund was created to further the cleanup of the affected properties. The LRG Committee is committed to the disbursement of funds to clean up and remediate the pollution in and around the plaintiffs’ properties and to affect source control.
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The Livingston Restoration Group (LRG) has been meeting since the fall of 2012. LRG hired Water & Environmental Technologies (WET) as their consultant in 2013 and, through their technical working group, have since prepared and implemented investigation and remediation plans for the BN Livingston Railyard Facility and surrounding properties. The following is a list of tasks managed and implemented by WET on behalf of LRG occurring from 2014 through current:
- Vapor Intrusion Study (complete)
- Cinder Pile Vapor/Solvent Investigation (In review)
- Industrial Sewer Manway Investigation (In review)
- Former Electric Shop Soil Vapor Extraction Testing (in review)
- Assessment of former American Petroleum Institute Separator Ponds and Underground Storage Tanks Supplemental Investigation (ongoing; additional investigation necessary)
- Pilot test for treatment of alluvial groundwater using air-sparge and soil vapor extraction technologies (ongoing)
- Pilot test for remediation of solvents in bedrock (ongoing)
These tasks are/were conducted in conjunction with BNSF as part of the ongoing cleanup being guided by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
Information related to the ongoing work and remediation will be periodically updated to this page. If you have a question, please email through the contact link above. If you do not have email, you may call with your question to Pat Thomson of WET at 406-782-5220 or to Courtney Lawellin, counsel, at 406-222-0100.