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County outlines remediation, monitoring and demolition timeline for old Law Enforcement Center at 407 Seventh Street
Summary
Building services director said the site remains classified as high-risk, estimated demolition costs total about $1.1 million, and the county will pursue plugging a neighboring geothermal well to achieve a lower-risk classification.
Kenny Smits, Woodbury County building services director, told the Board of Supervisors the former Law Enforcement Center at 407 Seventh Street remains under environmental oversight and requires further work before the county can demolish the structure.
Smits said the site has been in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources underground storage tank (UST) program. “The remediation project began around 2015, when we installed some equipment that actually pulled Benzene out of the ground, and captured it,” he said. He said the state-funded remediation had used about $350,000 of a $1,000,000 cap and that the active remediation effort was discontinued in August 2020. “The site was then reclassified and listed as no odors present, but continue monitoring,” Smits said.
Smits said county contractors plugged 15 monitoring wells in November 2023 but that the DNR continues to list the parcel as…
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