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ItI'I'EPP \)G E.-I Phase 1 EA - Morris Communications Site NE Ouadrant of 694 & 35W. Arden Hills. MN January 4, 2001 page 1 1.0 Executive Summary . This Phase I Environmental Assessment was prepared by JLM Environmental, Inc, (JIM) at theTequest of Chesapeake Companies NLP Group (Chesapeake) for t4e property known as the Morris Communieations Site, hereafter referred to as the Site, The Site is located at the northeast quadrant of the Highway 694 and Highway 35W interchange in Arden Hills, Ramsey County, Minnesota, This Phase I Environmental Assessment (EA) was performed in accordanee with ASTM EI527-00 Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process Guidelines. Historieal records from the 1880s through the 1990s indieate the Site has been undeveloped, then cultivated agrieultural iand, then pastureland, An underground sanitary sewer intereeptor line was present for many years on the Site and was relocated off-Site in 1998, A buried natural gas pipeline is present on the Site and it was abandoned in-plaee in 1995, The majority of the Site has been leased as horse pasture for several years, Surrounding property use has included a rendering plant that was located just north of the Site for many years, The City of Arden Hills took control of this property in approximately 1990 and limited environmental investigation was completed to assess potential impaets from the plant, Based on environmental reports reviewed by JLM, no significant soil or groundwater impacts were identified at the plant that would be expected to impact the Site, An abandoned . railroad spur line that servieed the rendering plant remains adjaeent to portions of the northern boundary of the Site, Three or four large eireular stru.ctures were located adjacent to the north of the Site in the 1950s, This is the current loeation of the A TS Steel building, The use of these structures is unknown but eould have been storage tanks, holding pens or impoundments associated with the rendering plant, JLM found no other information regarding these' structures, A long-time Site oecupant who uses the Site to pasture horses stated that buried items were encountered during redevelopment of the ATS property, Attempts by JLM to determined exaetly what was encountered were unsuceessful, The ATS building is currently used for warehousing and steel manufaeturing, The hazardous wastes generated at the ATS Steel facility over the past 10 years included waste paint, used oil and filters and degreasing solvents, Review of the Ramsey , County hazardous waste inspection file for the A TS facility identified no hazardous waste storage or disposal problems or violations, Based on the past presence of the cireular structures and history of hazardous waste generation at the ATS Steel faeility, there is potential that soil or groundwater at the ATS property has been adversely impaeted, Because the ATS property is adjacent to and at an assumed upgradient Ioeation., there is potential for impacts to soil or groundwater at the . Site.