[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Vikings stadium at Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vikings stadium site may still need costly cleanup

The land is befouled with hazardous waste from the decades it held a  
munitions plant. How much, and how expensive, remain the key questions.

By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
May 20, 2011

If a 430-acre site in Arden Hills becomes the new home of the  
Minnesota Vikings, its stands of long grass and blossoming trees will  
be transformed into a vast expanse of parking lots and plazas --  
perfect for the pre- and post-game partying fans adore.
That vision helps explain why Vikings owner Zygi Wilf chose Arden  
Hills over the less expensive Metrodome site.

But what many fans might not realize as they don their purple jerseys  
and break out the brats is that they'd be tailgating on what was one  
of the most-polluted pieces of ground in Minnesota.

The site is contaminated with mercury, lead, solvents, PCBs and other  
hazardous substances from its days as a U.S. Army munitions plant.  
And though the Army has spent some $200 million to clean up the worst  
of the contamination, officials at the Minnesota Pollution Control  
Agency say a stadium development would probably need further cleanup  
before the land would be safe for the public.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/wellness/122272589.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
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