Ruston asks EPA to step in concerning Point Ruston's 'drastic departure' from plans
Jul. 8—The relationship with the Point Ruston developer and the City of Ruston has reached a boiling point, and the city wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in.
The City of Ruston sent the EPA a letter earlier this year with a list of concerns regarding future development at Point Ruston.
Point Ruston LLC has developed waterfront condos, apartments, homes, a waterfront hotel and an urban village along Commencement Bay at the former site of the Asarco copper smelter.
In the past, the city has complained about the developer violating the city's building code. And the developers have said the city is refusing to work with them. The EPA also raised concerns in the past that the developer is stretching the limits of a federal law that allows construction without local permits on Superfund sites, because the Point Ruston is contaminated with arsenic and lead.
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