TRASH TALK:
Earlier this month, Freeway Properties sponsored Trash Talk, an open, moderated forum, attended by over 100 local citizens, KSTP’s Tom Hauser moderated a panel of top environmental experts and engineers who provided valuable context, and shared the latest science, facts, and proposed remediation and development plans (and barriers to development) regarding these most misunderstood sites. Here you can view the video in its entirety, just over an hour, to explore specific topics, or hear the answers to Tom Hauser’s questions.
KEY MOMENTS IN THIS VIDEO
Below are a list of key moments in the video for your reference.
Basics about the sites 12:32
No Threat to Water 37:10
How the Groundwater Moves 28:28
Difference between Dig & Line; Dig & Haul; the costs? 44:52
Who pays for the Dig & Line; Dig & Haul? 49:26
Barriers to Development 23:48
Hazard Risk scoring 33:21
Difference between sites. (brownfield, dumps, landfills) 19:34
The difference between the Freeway sites and others that have been successfully developed 16:57
The difference between Freeway Dump site contaminants and those at other sites 19:16
What type of mitigation would make this site more ripe for development? 25:59
Does the city of Burnsville want the golf/pickleball project, or some other development? 53:14
How much of the refusal to approve the golf/pickleball project is political? 57:26
What can the average citizen do to influence the MPCA to at least rescore? 101:16
John Hink
Environmental Engineer President, Solution Blue
John is an environmental engineer who provides over 26 years of experience in site development, sustainable design, Brownfield re-development, water resources planning, project management and integrated construction implementation. He has successfully managed hundreds of public green space projects with athletic fields, public parks and trails, mixed-use developments, Brownfield cleanups, and plazas from conceptual planning, through design development and concluding with construction implementation.
Bryan Murdock
President, Condition Services
Bryan Murdock is a highly respected environmental consultant with 36 years of diverse experience. He brings a well-rounded perspective, having worked extensively with both project proposers and regulatory agencies. As a former client manager for the State of Minnesota’s MPCA Emergency Response and Superfund contracts, Bryan supported the agency on hundreds of complex projects across the state. Appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to the Environmental Quality Board, he championed an environmental review process that balanced efficiency with both environmental and project goals. Bryan was also the first consultant in the early 1990s to bring an agricultural chemical cleanup project to the Agricultural Chemical Response and Reimbursement Account (ACRRA).
John Lichter
Senior Environmental Engineer
A Senior Environmental Engineer at Carlson McCain, John has over 40 years of environmental consulting experience. His primary areas of expertise include soil gas, soil and groundwater investigations, contaminant characterization and remediation, Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments and various environmental compliance activities: including all facets of environmental permitting, filing, and auditing work. Mr. Lichter has also managed groundwater investigations for over two dozen projects nationwide, including five area brownfield redevelopments. His recent work includes several projects that included remediation and redevelopment work on former landfill sites.
Mark Olson
Senior Environmental Scientist, Stantec
Mark has more than 40 years of experience in the field as an environmental consultant.He has conducted investigations and managed projects at industrial, hazardous waste, ag-chem, airport and solid waste facilities to assess soil, surface water, soil-gas and groundwater contamination issues and their potential risk to human health and the environment. He has completed numerous environmental reviews (EAW & EIS) for a variety of public and private projects. A focus of his work has been hydrogeologic characterization of sites and establishment of monitoring programs with regulatory approval. In Minnesota he has worked closely with MPCA staff to permit solid waste facilities on behalf of public and private clients, and to maintain compliance with permit requirements especially regarding potential migration of impacts via surface water, soil-gas, and groundwater pathways, and to address mitigation when required.