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New Army Reserve Center houses transportation company by Kristine Goodrich L ast month this newsletter high- lighted several new and planned Minnesota National Guard facilities on the Arden Hills Army Training Center. Just a little farther to the east, the Army Reserve also has a new facility, the $9.2 million Army Reserve building off Lex- ington Avenue, behind the long-existing Reserve Center on Highway 96. The new 37,000 square-foot facility is a Grow the for the 203rd Transportation Company. The - tion center, gym, workout facility, kitchen, and computer lab. The building is busiest on the weekends when soldiers are train- ing, but it also is used during the week by the company's full-time support personnel. The new center is home to a large solar array. The new facility will enable the 203rd Transportation Company to maintain a high level of readiness in order to respond to any mission asked of them, said Maj. The 203rd Transportation Company is Reserve facility until moving into the new responsible for loading and transferring center. The unit is preparing for a possible the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Com- cargo at air, truck, and rail terminals. The deployment in 2013. mand (of which the 203rd is a member). company has approximately 150 members. It activated in September 2010 and was At the ribbon cutting ceremony for the housed at the existing Arden Hills Army new center in November, several Army Army Community Covenant. It is a Notes about the abandoned well cost-share program formal commitment of support between H omes currently connected to city Grant money is limited and funding the local community and the soldiers water may still have an unsealed may not be applied retroactively to and families of the 203rd Transportation well located in the basement, a base-wells that have already been sealed. Company, Radtke explained. ment well room, or in the yard. Unsealed Wells eligible for cost share funding wells could potentially allow water just must be located within a drinking below the ground to contaminate the water supply management area or a to either Silver or Gold LEED standards deeper drinking water aquifers used for wellhead protection area. (the application was still in progress as of city water. A well that is no longer in use press time). The site also now is home to can be a potential threat to health, safety, a large solar array the largest installed and the environment, especially in sensi-Visit the Cost Share Funding webpage in Minnesota last year. More than 370 tive areas such as drinking water supply on Ramsey Conservation Districts solar panels were installed atop 31 poles management or wellhead protection website at: late last year. They will save the Army an areas. Sealing is a process of clearing an http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/cd/cost_ estimated $12,000 a year in energy costs. share_funding.htm No additional construction projects are with a special grout. Well sealing must planned on the Army Reserve complex in be performed by a Minnesota licensed Or, contact: the near future. well contractor.Michael Goodnature GIS & Conservation Specialist 651-266-7274 Applicants eligible for funding will s mike.goodnature@co.ramsey.mn.u be reimbursed up to 50% of the well sealing costs, not to exceed $750 per well. 5