Lakeland asbestos meeting tonight, 3/19

  • CatfishJohn
    Posts: 41
    #1227065

    This is from this morning’s Pioneer Press. Looks like a good opportunity for St. Croix anglers to get an update on the asbestos dumping at Lakeland Beach on the St. Croix. If anyone ever witnessed any dumping of construction materials in the vicinity of Lakeland Beach in the past several years, I’m sure the authorities would like to hear from them.

    LAKELAND: City to discuss beach asbestos

    City and county officials will meet with Lakeland residents at

    6:30 p.m. tonight at Lakeland City Hall to discuss the asbestos

    situation at Lakeland Beach.

    “I’m expecting that from this meeting, we’ll have a better sense

    of what the community can expect this spring relative to the

    remediation or cleanup, as well as to assess the probability

    that we will be able to reopen as a beach this summer,” said

    Mayor Craig Morris.

    Morris said he was “pessimistic” when asked whether the city

    would open the beach this summer. “I need to have assurance that

    we’re not going to find more of this stuff moving forward,” he

    said.

    Morris said he would ask officials to address how the city

    can “protect the health and welfare of the people who might use

    the beach … and the people that are living next to the beach.”

    He also wants to know to what extent people who might have used

    the beach in the past two or three years were exposed to

    asbestos.

    “I want definite answers to those three issues,” he said.

    JimW
    SE MN
    Posts: 519
    #239233

    “Momma said, don’t go near that river, don’t be hangin’ around ol’ Catfish John”!!!!

    JUst couldn’t resist!!!

    Jim W

    CatfishJohn
    Posts: 41
    #239333

    Here’s a link to this morning’s Pioneer Press article on the meeting in Lakeland. Evidently the asbestos even made its way into the river. Better hope for low spring runoff this year–flooding could really raise hell with that stuff! Hopefully they catch the criminals responsible for this. Sounds like they’ve got a pretty good handle on who it is.

    http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/2895056.htm

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