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Buying up all environmental liability, including unidentified damage, is a classic business blunder. Usually the buyer didn’t pay enough attention to realize they were ending up with the liability. To KNOWINGLY take on unidentified damage is ludicrous.

http://montanariveraction.org/milltown.dam.html

My understanding is that the dollars factored into the project’s budget for environmental cleanup of the site are based on a worst-case senario. And the city will purchase insurance to protect itself should it turn into a worse-than-worst-case senario.

The trouble with a worst-case scenario is that it would not only cost us a ton of cash, it is very likely to cost us a lot of time. A large enough shift in the timeline could have all sorts of cascading effects, such as UNL dropping out. Theoretically.

Perhaps I’m gullible, but I felt comfortable after listening to the gentleman (can’t remember who he represented) at the Council hearing He was talking about all of the deep samples over the past few years that they’ve been taking and there has been little to no contamination in those samples.  Granted, it’s not every single square inch, but personally I felt like they were on top of it.  Again, I could just be gullible…

If you’re gullible, then I guess I am too. I’m satisfied the issue is being addressed. What gets me is those in the anti-arena crowd who talk like no one’s even considered possible contamination or what to do about it.

I find the anti-arena crowd, at least the ones that I have heard or read, to be much less informed than the pro-arena crowd. Like I said the other day, I think there would be legit reasons to be opposed, but most of the stuff you hear is just silly.

I don’t want to belittle others for their viewpoints, but today’s letter to the editor is a prime example in my mind about the anti-arena crowd.  Mr Kehm said we oughta spend the $344 million on road repair.  Now, you know as well as I do that he’d probably be the first to complain about property tax increases, but where would that $344 million come from to repair the roads?  A “donor” like John Breslow?  Perhaps we could have naming rights on the roads?  I struggle to find the rationale in that thinking. 

One thing that I’d love to ask a lot of people who believe we should spend the money on roads…“did you vote yes a few years ago on the bond issue to fix roads?”

Oh well, I’m beginning to feel it’s all for naught anyway…

Good call. How many millions of dollars did it cost Omaha to clean up the Midtown area? Was that handled by the railroad(s)or locally? *Im not from there, so I don’t know* I don’t think Lincoln is in a position to handle the EPA nightmare that tearing up those old tracks would cause.

IM not against the arena at all, but we can’t go in unaware of the collateral costs involved, either.

Long ago when they were looking at all the potential sites for this project…this one was the most expensive.  Leave it to those who don’t pay the bill for it to pick the most expensive site on the list.  There were several other choices out there…and this one was the most expensive and also the most risky for issues, ie, have to move half the railroad.  There were plenty of option out there…And NO PROJECT Lincoln takes on stays under budget…Antelope Valley, yeah…over double what was expected.  Get ready folks for surprises!