[CPEO-MEF] "Minnesota takes TCAAP [Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant] soil and surface water off Superfund list"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Minnesota takes TCAAP soil and surface water off Superfund list
The former Arden Hills plant is partially off state Superfund list. 

By Shannon Prather 
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
May 2, 2020 

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has partially removed the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP), Ramsey County’s biggest development site, from the state’s Superfund list following a parallel action taken last fall by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But while the soil and surface water has been delisted, groundwater contamination associated with the 2,370-acre Arden Hills site remains on both the state and federal Superfund lists and will continue to be treated through an existing groundwater cleanup system.

Friday’s action is an important step for plans now underway to redevelop more than 400 acres of the former industrial site into homes and businesses.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.startribune.com/state-removes-tcaap-soil-and-groundwater-from-superfund-list/570121942/

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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
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