[CPEO-MEF] Former Finland Air Force Station (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radar base could become vacation homes

by Stephanie Hemphill
Minnesota Public Radio
June 7, 2006

The North Shore vacation home market is booming. Now a developer wants 
to convert the former Finland Air Force Base into vacation homes. But 
the project has been beset by problems, including pollution left by the 
Air Force.

Duluth, Minn. — Halfway between Duluth and Grand Marais, Highway 1 heads 
west into the wilderness. Ely is about 60 miles from here. But first 
there's Finland.

...

"There's a lot of contamination," Abazs says. "Diesel contamination, 
PCBs. So this is now a Superfund site."

The Air Force sold the property. The current owners want to redevelop 
this land and turn it into vacation homes and affordable housing. They 
plan a total of 68 houses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/06/06/finland/
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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