Xcel: Final Phase Complete For Ashland Superfund Cleanup

Work Spans Decades To Clean Up Coal Tar Contamination

Toxic pollutants and wood waste from industry long gone once littered the shoreline along the city of Ashland. Efforts to clean up contamination on the land and within the Chequamegon Bay have been ongoing for decades. 

Now, crews have finished the final phase of construction work to clean up Ashland’s superfund site, said Brian Elwood, spokesperson with Xcel Energy. 

"Over the last several years, we’ve had numerous crews and equipment and materials in that Kreher Park area and this year involved kind of restoring that area," he said...