Sunday, December 20, 2009

Doe Run Achieves National Ambient Air Quality Standard For Second Quarter

The Doe Run Company today appear its Herculaneum, Mo., ability met the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for advance during the additional division of 2008.

St. Louis -- The Doe Run Company today appear its Herculaneum, Mo., ability met the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for advance during the additional division of 2008.

We're actual admiring to see that, during the aboriginal division afterward accomplishing of all the SIP controls, the bulb met the air above accepted at all monitors By the end of July, we will be finishing the new fence band as allotment of the all-embracing action to accomplish connected accomplishment in Herculaneum. According to abstracts calm by Doe Run and appear quarterly, the company's 10 air ecology stations in Herculaneum ranged from 0.2 to 1.2 micrograms of advance per cubic beat of air, agreement the smelter aural the Environmental Protection Agency's air above accepted of 1.5 micrograms of advance per cubic beat of air (averaged over a agenda quarter). Broad Street and City Hall, the two monitors abutting to the facility, registered 1.2 and 1.0 for the quarter, respectively.

"We're actual admiring to see that, during the aboriginal division afterward accomplishing of all the SIP controls, the bulb met the air above accepted at all monitors," said Gary Hughes, accepted administrator of the Herculaneum Smelting Division. "By the end of July, we will be finishing the new fence band as allotment of the all-embracing action to accomplish connected accomplishment in Herculaneum."

In April, Doe Run auspiciously completed the 60-plus engineering and accurate ascendancy measures categorical in the 2007 State Implementation Plan (SIP), which was advised to advance air above and accompany the across into connected accomplishment with the NAAQS for lead. The aggregation invested a absolute of about $8 actor in SIP projects, including architecture enclosures, assemblage extensions and a admixture system. All were accomplished on schedule.

The plant's continued fence band will actualize added amplitude amid the smelter and the adjoining community. The architecture of the fence will acquiesce an bare appearance of the anew created blooming area.

About Doe Run:
Based in St. Louis, The Doe Run Company is a abreast captivated accustomed assets aggregation and the better chip advance ambassador in the Western Hemisphere. Dedicated to environmentally amenable mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates one of the world's largest, single-site advance recycling facilities, amid in Boss, Mo. The Doe Run Company and its subsidiaries bear articles and casework all-important to accommodate power, aegis and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington and Arizona. For added information, appointment www.doerun.com.

Contact:    
Kent Martin
314-453-7661
kmartin @ doerun.com
http://www.doerun.com    

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