[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "New Brighton squares off with Army over water cleanup costs" for Twin Cities Ammo Plant pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Brighton squares off with Army over water cleanup costs

by Jim Anderson
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
May 21, 2014

New Brighton is taking the U.S. Army to court, accusing it of  
reneging on a 1988 settlement in which it had agreed to pay the city  
millions of dollars to treat drinking water following decades of  
contamination at the nearby Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant.

The court settlement followed a four-year legal battle between the  
Army and the city over what Brig. Gen. Michael Nardotti, the Army’s  
former judge advocate general, had called "the most extensive Army  
contamination of a civilian water supply known to exist … affecting  
the water supply of approximately 35,000 people"”

For the past 26 years, both the Army and the city have lived amicably  
under the hard-fought settlement terms. Now, however, the city says  
the Army has abruptly decided it wants to change the deal.

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Fort the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/local/east/260207631.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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