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Article: A HISTORY-MAKING LANDFILL DO-OVER; Hazardous 3M trash buried decades ago in Washington County is being dug up and will be reburied with a protective lining.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 28, 2009
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Byline: TOM MEERSMAN; STAFF WRITER
In a $20 million job that's the largest of its kind in state history, workers in protective suits are unearthing trash in Lake Elmo that hasn't seen the light of day for more than three decades. Their mission is not to burn the wastes or haul them off to another state, but to rebury them in a state-of-the-art pit that will keep chemicals that went into Scotchgard and other 3M products from getting into any more drinking water.
Excavating 33 acres of garbage, and then putting it back in the same place, may seem like a curious way to handle trash that has rested undisturbed since 1975.
However, the former ...
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