Contaminated soil from New York to be incinerated at Clean Harbors

Half of a shipment of contaminated soil is on its way to Kimball.

Approximately 1,000 tons total is being shipped from Niagara Falls, N.Y. to Clean Harbors in Kimball for incineration. Half the soil, from the Love Canal clean-up, will be incinerated at the local Clean Harbors Environmental Services site and the other half will be shipped to a similar incinerator in Utah.

“This is like digging up an old landfill. We are set up for it and it is no more or less hazardous than the stuff we get now,” said Jared Hunsaker, facility general manager at Clean Harbors in Kimball. “This all just...