Note: the meeting time was pushed back one hour to 7 p.m.

A meeting to present the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit Preliminary Repository Screening Report will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 28 at the Emergency Operations Center (3619 Wynne Ave.).

Atlantic Richfield (British Petroleum) and Butte-Silver Bow will present the content and findings of the report to the Repository Siting Study Committee.

Last fall, the ButteCast exposed a plan to dump more than 800,000 cubic yards of toxic waste near homes in Centerville and in the old Dublin Gulch neighborhood. The waste will come from a cleanup in the center of town, and the dumping plan was developed in meetings that were not open to the public.

After facing backlash from residents of the Butte hill, ARCO/BP and Butte-Silver Bow officials said they would further study the area and look into dumping much of the waste into the Berkeley Pit. They promised to keep the waste out of the Dublin Gulch, but did not promise to keep it completely away from homes in the area.

This will be the first public meeting since ARCO/BP held an open house Nov. 2 at Montana Tech.

Click here to see the announcement about the meeting.