Even if Ramsey County doesn't win the Vikings stadium sweepstakes, the Arden Hills site should be cleaned up with state help, Gov. Mark Dayton said Friday.
The governor seems to be leaning strongly toward supporting a Minneapolis site, even if the Legislature hasn't yet formed a consensus on whether there should even be public funding for the NFL team.
If Arden Hills isn't selected, the governor still wants to clean up the old ammunition manufacturing site, the Star Tribune reports:
"I told the [Ramsey] county commissioners that I would put in and work hard for $30 million of bonding to clean up the site if the project, if the stadium goes elsewhere so we can get that ready to be developed. It is just a fabulous piece of property potentially," Dayton said.
He said he did not put the money in the borrowing proposal he released last week because he did not want to prejudge where the stadium would be built.
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According to Wikipedia, "The site was added to the National Priorities List as a Superfund site on September 8, 1983.[2] The soil, sediments, groundwater, and surface water surrounding the plant were contaminated with base neutral acids, metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, volatile organic compounds, pesticides, cyanide, and explosives.[3]"
So whatever happened to that cleanup and or since it was owned by the Federal government and last used by Alliant technologies, why is it the State of Minnesota's responsibility to cleanup?
Or is there a connection between the Carlyle Group and Allient Technologies, the groups who have profited from all the wars that we fight? Shouldn't they be responsible for the cleanup?