[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Finland Air Force [radar] Station (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

You could own a Cold War radar station on North Shore
One hundred acres where the Finland Air Force Station used to operate is for sale for $800,000. The property, which still has some existing military housing from the 1960s, is a Superfund site.

By Laura Butterbrodt
Duluth News Tribune (MN)
February 3, 2022

FINLAND, Minn. — A 100-acre property once home to the Finland Air Force Station is for sale.

The former Cold War Air Force radar station, located on Lookout Mountain in the unincorporated community of Finland, Lake County, was established in 1950 and used until 1980.

The base used several equipment systems over the years to track and identify passing aircraft, especially to monitor and potentially intercept any enemy aircraft entering the United States from Canada using ground control intercepts. The station was also responsible for maintaining remote, unattended gap-filler radar sites in Askov, Pine County; Aurora, St. Louis County; and Upson, Wisconsin.

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The property is now a Superfund site, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and has been on the MPCA Permanent List of Priorities since 1995. The groundwater contains TCE (trichloroethylene), industrial chemicals that can harm human teeth. PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) have been detected in the soil; those chemicals can be carcinogenic to animals and humans and cause other adverse health effects.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/you-could-own-a-cold-war-radar-station-on-north-shore

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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