[CPEO-BIF] Shell Lake (MN) airport - former trap club

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lead cleanup at airport planned

Regan Kohler
Washburn County Register (WI)
August 14, 2008

SHELL LAKE - The Shell Lake City Council addressed the lead remediation 
at the airport during their meeting Monday, Aug. 11, in city hall.

The now-disbanded trap club had used the airport for shooting, and lead 
and arsenic from the targets got lodged in the soil, contaminating it. 
The council has been looking into remediation, for safe removal of the 
lead, for a long time. Meanwhile, the airport is undergoing major 
improvements.

At last month’s council meeting, three options for cleaning the site up 
were discussed. One was to treat the contaminated soil on-site and then 
take it to the Sarona landfill, and another was to haul it as hazardous 
waste to a special landfill in Michigan. The estimated costs were 
between $18,000-$1 million, and $2.7 million, respectively.

The third option, which was chosen at the plan commission’s meeting 
after information was given by the Department of Natural Resources, was 
to excavate and encapsulate the contaminated soil into a container with 
special lining and bury it elsewhere on-site. According to the minutes 
of the plan commission meeting, this option was deemed most feasible, at 
$125,000-$135,000, and would not affect nearby property values.

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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