Cataldo News

Soil contaminated by mining in the Silver Valley will be shipped to a new repository starting immediately, a top official for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

To get the booklet, visit www.idt.gov, click on "Publications," then follow the thread from "Traveling through Idaho" to the "Idaho Historical Marker Guide." Or, send $5 to the Idaho Transportation Department, P.O. Box 7129, Boise, ID 83707.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality intends to dump more than 40,000 loads of waste at the so-called East Mission Flats repository.

The mayor of Post Falls is challenging plans to use 20 acres near the Coeur d'Alene River as a site for disposal of soil contaminated with waste from historic mining in the Silver Valley of northern Idaho.

Contractors Northwest Inc., of Coeur d'Alene, is working on a $1.4 million project to replace the well that serves the Kingston water district, which is located between Cataldo and Pinehurst, in the village of Kingston, Idaho.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the Coeur d'Alene river in Shoshone and Kootenai Counties, but most residents there aren't worried.