Mike Carroll and his dog were on their daily walk to Trainsong Park when he found it ringed with neon orange plastic fencing.
A laminated flyer zip-tied to the perforated panels read: “Soil samples showed an unexpected high level of dioxins.”
That was in 2021, when the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality was sampling soil across west Eugene to gauge pollution from J.H. Baxter & Co., a wood-treatment faciltiy that used chemicals linked to dioxins…