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St. Paul, Minn. --The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
(MPCA) is proposing to delete one from, and add 10 contaminated sites to, the
state’s Superfund Permanent List of Priorities. These sites have known risks to
human health and the environment, or the potential to pose these risks. The public is invited to comment on the proposed
sites’ additions and deletion by June 10, 2016.
MPCA Remediation Division staff will make a presentation
about the proposed list changes to the MPCA Advisory Committee
on May 24 in St. Paul. This meeting will be open to the public; however, formal
comments about the proposal must be made to the designated staff contact
described below.
Nine of the 10 sites are located in the Twin Cities metro
area and the remaining site is in Cloquet, Minnesota.
Sites being added to the list are current or former dry cleaners,
metal platers or other industries that use industrial chemical solvents,
including trichloroethylene (TCE), and perchloroethylene (PCE, or perc) in
their business processes. When these chemicals are spilled or otherwise migrate
into soil or groundwater beneath the establishment, the resulting contamination
can spread outward through groundwater or upward as vapors into residential or
commercial basements and foundations.
The Metro-area sites being proposed for addition are:
- 55th Street and Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, is the
site of a former dry cleaning operation; the MPCA is investigating a PCE
release which has contaminated groundwater and soil vapor;
- Arcade and Hawthorne, St Paul, is the site of a former dry
cleaner and auto service station where industrial solvents have been found in
groundwater and soil;
- Hospital Linen, St Paul, is a former commercial laundry and
industrial dry cleaning site where PCE was found in soil and soil vapor;
- Lyndale Avenue Corridor, Bloomington, is home to more than
40 commercial and industrial businesses, including vehicle repair, dry cleaning
and manufacturing, that have or currently use hazardous chemicals which
contaminated soil and groundwater;
- Pure Oil Bulk Storage Facility, Excelsior, where industrial solvents PCE and TCE were detected in
groundwater and soil vapors, from an unknown source;
- Southeast Hennepin Area Ground Water and Vapor Plume,
Hennepin County, is a TCE-contaminated site that has ongoing groundwater
monitoring and soil vapor testing;
- Universal Plating Facility, Minneapolis, was a chemical and
mechanical plating facility that closed in 2009 and has been included in the
MPCA’s Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup program since 2014;
- University Avenue and Pascal Street, St Paul, is an area
that has had TCE and PCE detected in soil and groundwater; and,
- West 66th Street and Vincent Avenue, Richfield,
was the site of small spills or disposal of the dry cleaning chemical PCE that
contaminated groundwater.
The Cloquet-based site being proposed for addition is the
former D’s Fabric Care, which was a dry cleaning operation that is being investigated
for groundwater and soil vapor contamination.
The one site proposed for delisting is Boyer Lumber
Superfund site in Virginia, Minn. This site was an undeveloped mining property
that later became a manufacturing facility and later a lumber yard and hardware
store. Based on MPCA hazardous materials cleanup actions, no further work is
necessary at this site to protect public health and the environment.
Online access to all sites being added or taken off the list
is available here.
Placement on the PLP list makes funding available to
investigate and clean up these sites. The last time the agency added or deleted
a site from this list was in September 2015.
Comments about the proposed site additions and deletion may
be made by 4:30 p.m. on June 10, 2016 to Tom Higgins, MPCA Site Remediation and
Redevelopment Section, at (651) 757-2436, (800) 657-3864 or
tom.higgins@state.mn.us.
For more information about the state’s Superfund program,
visit https://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/superfund-program.
Broadcast version
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is proposing to add
ten contaminated sites to the state’s Superfund list. All but one is in the Twin Cities metro area;
the other is in Cloquet, Minnesota. Sites added to this list become eligible
for funding which allows the agency to investigate and clean up these sites.
One site in Virginia, Minnesota is proposed for delisting,
meaning the site has been cleaned up and no longer qualifies as a Superfund
site.
The agency’s Remediation Division staff will make a
presentation about the proposed list changes to the MPCA Advisory Committee on May 24 in St. Paul. This meeting will be open to
the public; however, comments about the proposal must be made in writing by June 10.
To learn more about these sites or to comment about the
M-P-C-A’s proposal, visit the M-P-C-A web site.
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