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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Friday, January 30, 2009Ooooh that smellI don't know about you, but if I was building a new home I wouldn't put it on a lot next to a garbage incinerator. But even if I did, I wouldn't then expect the people who ran the garbage incinerator -- which was built over 20 years before I got there -- to have to pay for smell remediation. Then again, I'm not the Minnesota Twins:When the new Twins ballpark was sited next to Hennepin County's garbage burner in downtown Minneapolis, county officials assured state legislators that there wouldn't be any odor problem despite the proximity to a building that takes in 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Now the county is considering spending an estimated $2.3 million to remodel the building and grounds, about $500,000 of that to deal with odor control. You often hear about this kind of thing with public ballparks. No, not trash specifically, but the situation in which elected officials express their displeasure at finding out about hidden expenses or problems years after the funds were approved for the stadium. You were told that a garbage incinerator a mere 100 feet from a fan promenade wouldn't present an odor problem? And you believed it? Really? I'd suggest that a little more scrutiny on the front end would have identified this as a potential problem and a little more diligence in the planning stages would have found a cheaper solution to it. Of course, if such scrutiny and diligence were exercised, it's very likely that the whole idea of giving a billionaire hundreds of millions in public funds for a personal playground and cash machine would have been tabled in the first place. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 9:15am Comments
MooseinOhio said...
I have a friend that wants to establish the Court of Common Sense and this appears to be the type of case he would recommend for trial. Posted 01/30 at 10:46 AM
Zach Sanders said...
TCM - Trash stinks, no matter where it’s from. Maybe the Minnesota trash just stinks less. You would think that someone at the construction site would have noticed it and brought it up to someone. Apparently, it doesn’t stink as much as lots of men working. So why would anyone at the game notice then? -Zach Sanders Posted 01/30 at 11:15 AM
Rob said...
Maybe I’m too cynical, but this smacks of a retcon to me. Basically, the $2.3M to renovate the garbage incinerator was too much to include in the original price tag, so they ignore the issue and hope no one notices. Posted 01/30 at 11:44 AM
Jason @ IIATMS said...
If they had a roof on it…. Posted 01/30 at 01:14 PM
Aaron Moreno said...
Who cares, it’s government money? Posted 01/30 at 02:56 PM
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I don’t know what they’re talking about. As a native Minnesotan, I want to assure everyone that our trash does not stink. Maybe they’re trucking it from Wisconsin.
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