[CPEO-BIF] "Des Moines will take ownership of Dico, the city's most notorious toxic site. Will development follow?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Des Moines will take ownership of Dico, the city's most notorious toxic site. Will development follow?

By Kim Norvell
Des Moines Register (IA)
September 10, 2020

The city of Des Moines announced Thursday it will take ownership of its most notorious toxic site, paving the way for redevelopment of a prime piece of real estate - a downtown gateway that has sat vacant for 25 years.

The site of the former Dico Inc. manufacturing plant has been tied up in legal battles for decades. Its owners have been fighting millions of dollars in fines the Environmental Protection Agency levied against them for not complying with pollution cleanup orders. 

The 43-acre property - east of the east bank of the Raccoon River and just south of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway - has soil contaminated with various chemicals, and rusted-out, run-down metal buildings containing carcinogenic materials. It has long been the target of vandalism and squatters, and it was the site of a gruesome homicide last year.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/development/2020/09/10/dico-superfund-site-downtown-des-moines-owned-city-development/3446007001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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