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Item: BNSF depot in compliance: Commissioners agree to propose additional conditions for facility/Alecia Warren, Coeur d’Alene Press
More Info: Despite its rocky start, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter received a nod of approval from the Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday. Continuing the conditional five-year compliance hearing that was tabled last week, the commissioners voted unanimously that the massive depot is in compliance with the conditions the officials set when they passed a conditional use permit for the facility in 2004.
Question: Are you still concerned that the BNSF depot near Hauser poses an environmental risk?
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TerryHarris on November 20 at 9:56 a.m.
The finding that the depot is in compliance with its conditions is maybe more of a statement of how weak the conditions really are. This is simply not a facility that should be operating over the top of the sole source of drinking water for some half a million people.