# MICHAEL MCGOWAN/BURNSVILLE, MN
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32388`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0374
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FREEWAY SANITARY LANDFILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MICHAWL MCGOWAN OWNS PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE MINNESOTA      RIVER IN DAKOTA COUNTY.  THE SITE CONTAINS AN IMPROPERLY     CLOSED LANDFILL THAT IS ON THE NPL LIST AND 13.2 ACRES OF    WETLAND VIOLATION.  THE WETLAND VIOLATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A MARINA AND LEVY MR. MCGOWN CONSTRUCTED AROUND THE LAND-    FILL.  THE PURPOSE OF THE LEVY IS TO PROTECT THE AREA FROM   100-YEAR FLOOD EVENTS.  THE CITY OF BURNSVILLE WOULD LIKE    TO DEVELOP AN OUTDOOR MUSIC AMPHITHEATER ON THE SITE.  THE   KRAEMER QUARRY ADJACENT TO THIS SITE CURRENTLY PUMPS 8 TO 13 MILLION GALLONS OF GROUNDWATER PER DAY, AND DISCHARGES IT    TO THE MN RIVER.  THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THIS QUARRY IS      ABOUT ANOTHER 10 YEARS.  THE GROUNDWATER IS POLLUTED WITH    VOC'S AND HEAVY METALS FROM THE LANDFILL.  MR. MCGOWN HAS    MADE NO ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE LANDFILL ISSUES WITH MPCA.

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