So much toxic soil lies in Trainsong Park that it could fill 800 dump trucks, according to new sampling conducted by the city of Eugene.
But it likely won’t all be hauled out because doing so isn’t realistic — and would be too expensive — Emily Proudfoot, principal landscape architect for the city’s Parks Department, told a room of residents in a small church Thursday, May 28.
Instead, she and her team are weighing cleanup options that are a mix of excavation and containment, removing soil in some places and capping it in others to keep it buried.
The Trainsong community has waited five years to learn the extent of the pollution in their five-acre park, where chain-link fencing separates the playground from the cancer-causing dioxins in the ground…