Alcoa

Alcoa, one of the largest aluminum producers in the world, have agreed to spend over $11 million to assist in clean up and revitalization around Lavaca Bay, Texas. The area was heavily polluted with mercury by Alcoa discharge. The practice of expelling pollutants into the water was abandoned by Alcoa in the 1970s. There has already been around $100 million spent on cleaning up the area already. As well as continuing with the decontamination of the area, Alcoa is to give 729 acres of land to a nearby wildlife refuge and is to also create new habitat, including marshes and oyster reefs. The company will also create new piers and jetties in the surrounding area. Mercury contamination in oysters lead to the closure of the harvest around the same time that Alcoa stopped dumping its discharge into the bay, and in the late 1980s, the crab and finfish fisheries were also stopped. As of 2000, most of these harvests have been reopened in most of Lavaca Bay. (Dec-14-04) [THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE]

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