Sam Wilson

FRENCHTOWN — The companies on the hook for cleaning up the former Smurfit-Stone industrial site expect to propose a remediation plan for the polluted riverfront property as soon as 2028.

That’s according to David Tooke, a consultant with GSI Environmental, which has been contracted by the “potentially responsible parties,” as the companies are called. Tooke offered the rough timeline during a Thursday night presentation to the Frenchtown Citizen Advisory Council, a group of local residents and others with an interest in the cleanup.

Located just south of Frenchtown, the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation’s pulp mill shut down in 2010 after operating since 1957. Along with the loss of hundreds of local jobs, it also left a 3,200-acre industrial wasteland adjacent to the Clark

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