[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Universty of Minnesota and Gopher Ordnance Works

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

U of M will unveil UMore plans next week

Trey Mewes
Rosemount Town Pages (MN)
June 13, 2008

UMore Park is about to take the next step in its transformation to a new 
University of Minnesota-sponsored community.

The U of M has finished several of its concept designs for what the 
UMore park property could look like 25 years from now.

...

A few things need to be done before the board of regents can approve a 
final plan. University officials expect a report sometime this summer 
from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over possible soil contamination 
in parts of the park property where the Gopher Ordnance Works, a U.S. 
government factory which produced smokeless gun powder in 1945, once 
stood. The U is also in the process of awarding a contract to complete 
an environmental impact statement, which will help determine whether or 
not to mine gravel from the property.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.rosemounttownpages.com/articles/index.cfm?id=19745&section=News&freebie_check&CFID=46073524&CFTOKEN=20127567&jsessionid=8830b4e4724b562b283c

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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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