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DEQ: Toxins found again in soil near wood treatment facility

by Matthew Denis
| December 10, 2020 12:07 AM

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon Health Authority are looking into elevated levels of dioxins, a group of toxic chemical compounds, in soil samples taken around the J.H. Baxter Street wood treatment facility, south of Roosevelt Boulevard in Eugene.

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