MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – This week the Middletown Area Town Hall, or MATH, will get a report on clean up efforts at a former geothermal waste dump site.

MATH will meet in the activity room at the Middletown Community Center, 21256 Washington St., beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11.

Meetings are open to the community.

On the agenda is an update from contractors for Pacific Gas and Electric regarding the cleanup of the former geothermal waste disposal facility on Butts Canyon Road.

According to the PG&E Web site, the property was used for waste disposal between 1976 and 1986. Mud and waste from geothermal operations were deposited in the property's evaporation ponds and solid waste disposal trenches.

PG&E – which had been among the companies that used the facility – was part of the effort to close the site after Geothermal Inc., the facility's operator, went bankrupt. In 2003, PG&E bought the facility and took on the responsibility of the facility's cleanup, according to corporation's Web site.

As part of the site restoration, PG&E is working to restore wildlife habitat and wetlands.

On Thursday there also will be an update on the proposed Dollar General store.

Texas-based Cross Development has applied for a major use permit to build the 9,100-square-foot store at 20900 Highway 29.

The store proposal was the focus of MATH's May meeting: bit.ly/1F2sHOL .

Other items on the Thursday meeting agenda include a report on MATH's recent chili cook-off, movies in Middletown Square Park and new light poles.

The board of directors includes Chairman Fletcher Thornton, Vice Chair Claude Brown, Secretary Ken Gonzales, and members Charlotte Kubiak and Mike Tabacchi.

MATH – established by resolution of the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12, 2006 – is a municipal advisory council serving the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (including Hidden Valley Lake), Long Valley and Middletown.

Meetings are subject to videotaping.

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