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Re: Thank You

Congratulations!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Pollock <pollockg@radiks.net>
To: pollockg@radiks.net <pollockg@radiks.net>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 9:58 PM
Subject: Thank You


>Thanks to all of you who wrote letters and called ARASCO it looks like we
>have won. ARASCO said they received a lot of calls from Texas.
>
>From the editorial page of the Omaha World Herald
>Published Thursday
>May 20, 1999
>
>Wanted: Nonhistoric Fill Dirt
>Asarco has done a good deed by agreeing not to use loess soil from the
>bluffs in Council Bluffs as construction fill at its site near downtown
>Omaha.
>The company, which has closed its lead refinery, needs enough fill-dirt to
>cover 17 acres to a depth of six feet. This will be part of a cap that is
>designed to seal off contaminants and allow the area to be used as green
>space and access to the Missouri River.
>In the past, some of the soil from the Loess Hills in southern Council
>Bluffs has been hauled away for use in construction projects. Gov. Tom
>Vilsack has signed legislation creating the Loess Hills Preservation and
>Development Alliance, whose 28-member board will use state funding to
>preserve and promote the area.
>But it was thanks to an existing group, the Loess Hills Preservation
>Society, that Asarco decided to obtain its cap soil elsewhere. The society
>has been active in trying to protect the Loess Hills for more than three
>years. The society and Asarco deserve credit for their effort.
>
>   © Copyright 1999 Omaha World-Herald Company. All rights reserved.
>
>Thanks Glenn Pollock Iowa Prairie Network and Loess Hills Preservation
>Society.
>
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