Last month, the Lookout Eugene-Springfield editorial board called on the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Lane County to test soil at Alton Baker Park for contamination.
Reporting by Lookout in September had revealed toxic chemicals had been dumped at the Day Island Landfill beneath the eastern edge of the park more than 50 years ago by the wood treatment company J.H. Baxter & Co., whose west Eugene plant was shut down and designated a federal Superfund site this year.
Neither the state nor the county have responded to our call…