[CPEO-BIF] Ford Motors, Highland Park, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ford to clean house before land is sold

Eight decades of polluted ground needs to be cleaned up, and that will 
be a factor in determining the price of the property, its risks and how 
it can be used in the future.

By Tom Meersman and Myron P. Medcalf
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
July 28, 2007

In early 1942, the Ford Motor Co. built a huge oval dirt track on its 
Highland Park property to test military vehicles it was building for use 
in World War II. To control the dust, workers sprayed the track with 
waste oil, a common practice for unpaved roads.

The track disappeared beneath new buildings and parking lots by 1974. 
But it's one of dozens of sites on the 138-acre property that need to be 
investigated and possibly cleaned up, according to a company report 
being reviewed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Ford has decided to close the plant in 2008, so the environmental 
cleanup will help determine the property's sale price, risks for 
possible developers and the potential uses of the land.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1330616.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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