Eaton sugar-beet mill now Superfund site

EATON – Most local officials look upon the designation of a Superfund site inside their city limits as an unwelcome sign of rampant pollution, but Eaton town manager Gary Carsten took it as good news.

At the start of 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the 43-acre, former Great Western Sugar factory in Eaton, as a Superfund site. Under the EPA designation, the federal government is in charge of cleaning up the one-time sugar-beet processing plant. Considering the tab should be about $2 million to remove asbestos from buildings, Carsten said town officials were relieved by…