[CPEO-BIF] "Extent of superblock contamination unknown, " Midway, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel]

Extent of superblock contamination unknown
Cleanup will also include 51.2 million pounds of building materials

By JANE MCCLURE
Monitor Saint Paul (MN
March 2017(

A site with more than a century of different land uses, some of them messy, can mean a big cleanup day. Pollution cleanup is a major part of work to develop a Major League Soccer stadium in the Midway. Cleanup is being led by the St. Paul Port Authority, working with the city, property owners, contractors and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

A Feb. 14 city site plan review and look at MPCA records indicate the complexity of cleanup for the superblock bounded by St. Anthony, Snelling and University avenues and Pascal St. While cleanup has gone on over the past 30 years in different parts of the property, much more work is ahead.

The stadium project is the focus of an action plan, filed with the MPCA, detailing cleanup. The property is also enrolled in the MPCA’s Voluntary Investigations and Cleanup (VIC) Program and the Petroleum Brownfields Program. Monte Hilleman, who leads pollution cleanup efforts for the Port Authority, said that as the rest of Midway Center is redeveloped, more response action plans will be developed and filed with the state.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.monitorsaintpaul.com/extent-of-superblock-contamination-unknown/

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