[CPEO-BIF] Saints ballpark, St. Paul, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Costs of new Saints ballpark could rise as more polluted soil found

By Frederick Melo
Pioneer Press (MN)
June 12, 2013

Soil borings revealed the land beneath the future site of the downtown St. Paul ballpark is more contaminated than expected, but it's unclear what impact the discovery will have on the project's $54 million price tag.

Long before the 1969 Gillette / Diamond Products warehouse was constructed off Fifth and Broadway, the site was used to process coal in a system called coal gasification, said Paul Johnson. He is the project manager with Nelson, Tietz and Hoye, which is representing St. Paul in the design and construction of the 7,000-seat Lowertown ballpark at the warehouse site.

City officials knew that the land beneath the vacant structure was polluted and that substantial amounts of soil would have to be removed to a special environmental landfill and then replaced. Nevertheless, they were taken aback by the amount of contaminated soil.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_23438209/lowertown-ballpark-costs-could-rise-more-contamination-found

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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