Vit Plant employees and Bechtel donate nearly $600,000
Bechtel National Inc. and its employees at the Hanford Vit Plant donated more than $590,000 to community organizations in 2015.
RICHLAND, Wash.—Bechtel National Inc. and its employees at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the Vit Plant, donated more than $590,000 to community organizations in 2015.
“Bechtel has a corporate commitment to enhancing the communities in which it works through charitable contributions and personal stewardship, and we encourage our employees to do the same,” said Vit Plant Project Director Peggy McCullough.
“However, the generosity of employees on this project exceeds anything I’ve seen on other projects and in other communities,” she said.
Most recently, Vit Plant employees donated thousands of toys and more than $35,000 to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots campaign.
Additional recipients included the United Way of Benton and Franklin Counties, Second Harvest, Junior Achievement, March of Dimes and others.
The largest single contribution was to Friends of Badger Mountain. In June, Bechtel donated $100,000 to help create a preserve on Candy Mountain in Richland.
The Candy Mountain gift is the most recent in a number of legacy projects Bechtel has supported in the Tri-Cities over the last 20 years. Other legacy projects include the Hanford REACH Interpretive Center, Bechtel Planetarium at Columbia Basin College, Family Fishing Pond, and Playground of Dreams.
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At Hanford, Bechtel is designing and building the world’s largest radioactive waste treatment plant for the U.S. Department of Energy at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state. The Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the Vit Plant, will immobilize millions of gallons of radioactive liquid waste stored in 177 underground tanks using a process called vitrification. For more information about the Vit Plant, visit www.hanfordvitplant.com.