[CPEO-BIF] Atlas Cement site, Morgan Park, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Polluted Atlas Site: City Shoulders Bigger Burden


By KBJR News 1 (Duluth, MN)
October 11, 2010

DULUTH, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) -- City leaders are taking steps 
this week to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars to redevelop the 
old Atlas Cement site in Morgan Park.

The city–owned industrial park is a well–known "brownfield" site with 
varying levels of hazardous chemicals in the soil, including lead, 
arsenic, and petroleum fuel.

Since 2005, City leaders have been trying to restore the site's economic 
potential. Recent cleanup efforts on 11 of the site's 55-acres resulted 
in the relocation and new development for the Lincoln Park-based Ikonics 
Corporation.

New this week: The City of Duluth will apply for three grants totaling 
$1.4 million dollars from the EPA to help assess and clean up the 
polluted soil.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/City-Applies-for--104749549.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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