Lawmakers approve Pig’s Eye landfill cleanup task force for St. Paul
Minnesota lawmakers Sunday evening approved the creation of a task force to figure out the best ways to clean up the Pig’s Eye landfill in St. Paul.
The landfill, a 350-acre swale of public wetlands and prairie that borders Pig’s Eye Lake and the Mississippi River on the city’s East Side, sits in St. Paul’s largest and most overlooked regional park.
It’s also polluted, chock full of heavy metals such as mercury and PFAS/PFOS — chemicals used in household goods — at levels that can threaten the health of wildlife and downstream communities that rely on the river for drinking water.
The bill to establish the task force by October had enjoyed bipartisan support, but, for various political and procedural reasons, its outcome remained unclear until the last night of the Legislature.
The bill now moves to the desk of Gov. Tim Walz for his signature.
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