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Article: EDITORIAL: Pollution agency would dig up more with amnesty offer.(Editorial)
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2007
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Aug. 28--Relief ought to follow the $14 million cleanup of Minnesota's most-expensive environmental mess. But it won't.
That's because the dumping ground for barrels filled with lead-tainted machinery grease at the former Reserve Mining Co. plant in Silver Bay is just one of at least 61 long-buried pollution nightmares left by Minnesota's taconite industry. Other hot spots include a similar barrel dump north of Hoyt Lakes and an unpermitted dump in Mountain Iron where everything from lubricating grease to paint to waste from a research lab was tossed, buried and forgotten.
And those are just the messes the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency knows about. ...
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