September 2009
On September 30, 2009, an agreement was finalized in federal court between Georgia-Pacific and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to design and construct permanent caps for the two landfills at the Willow Boulevard/A-Site Operable Unit.

September 2009
USEPA hosts a meeting on September 10 to update Kalamazoo area residents on possible cleanup alternatives for the Allied OU.

Summer 2009 Allied Paper, Inc. Operable Unit: Millennium Holdings completes a supplemental study to evaluate groundwater flow at the OU.

August 2009
The construction work for the Plainwell No. 2 Dam Time-Critical Removal Action begins in accordance with the Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent, or AOC, signed in June 2009.
Read USEPA's fact sheet.

June 2009
The construction and replanting work associated with the Time-Critical Removal Action in the former Plainwell Impoundment is complete. See a graphical summary of the project. Crews excavated, processed and disposed of more than 91,000 cubic yards of materials from across 17.5 acres (nearly 130,000 cubic yards removed for the entire project). The monitoring and maintenance phase of the project begins.

June 2009
USEPA approves the final Source Investigation at the Former Kalamazoo and Hawthorne Mill Properties Report. This report finds that the former Kalamazoo and Hawthorne Mill properties are not sources of PCBs to the Superfund Site and are therefore no longer associated with the Site. This clears the way for redevelopment of the properties.

May 2009
USEPA and Georgia-Pacific finalize an agreement to design and construct permanent caps for the two landfills at the Willow Boulevard/A-Site Operable Unit. Read USEPA's press release.

February 2009
At a public meeting on February 26, the Peer Review Panel summarizes
the findings of its December 2008 report on a series of Site-specific ecological risk assessment studies completed by researchers from Michigan State University.

January 2009 Millennium Holdings (member of the KRSG) files for bankruptcy