[CPEO-BIF] Haymarket Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Puzzling question of pollution in arena project

By DEENA WINTER
Lincoln Journal Star (NE)
May 6, 2010

Lincoln native John Schmitz began working for the railroad in 1973 as a 
switchman. He spent plenty of time in the "lower yard" -- an area now 
targeted by the city for redevelopment into an arena and other private 
businesses.

He was 19 when he started working on the railroad, and over the course 
of the next two decades, he saw how heavy rains would leave standing 
water in the railyard, with oil on top.

...

Recent talk of digging up that railyard and building roads, bridges, 
parking garages, shops, a hotel and a new arena has him thinking back to 
those days now more than ever.

The cost to clean up contaminants in the railyard -- and a nearby scrap 
yard and lumber yard -- has become a major campaign issue as the vote 
nears Tuesday on whether to proceed with financing on the arena project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://journalstar.com/special-section/arena/recent-news/article_0561451e-58b6-11df-962a-001cc4c03286.html

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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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