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-7- Vento. The Councilmember said the fact that there was an Assistant Secretary of the Army who was a political appointee sitting at the same table with him at the TCAAP • lunch had caused him to conclude that "with the Army operating at a pretty high level on this issue and the extent to which Congressional pressure is being applied, somehow the matter is going to be resolved Councilmember Marks indicated he had learned that not only was Congressman Sabo on the House or Joint Appropriations Committee, but he also served on the Military Appropriations subcommittee where he had been able to insert language into the appropriate legislation which "directed the Army to reimburse the two cities for their groundwater problems. " Councilmember Marks said he perceived "General " Walker's assurances that there would be no more pollution from the army base once the system which is planned is put in place, would be very .little consolation for the City because it had taken 30 years for the contamination to reach St. Anthony and it would be at least that long before the St. Anthony water would be free of contaminants. Mayor Sundland reported Congressman Vento had questioned whether the contamination wouldn't just be "recycled" with the proposal to pump 2.5 million gallons of water a day from the aquifer for air stripping through a system of staggered wells and then to direct the treated water into Rice Creek and a sand pit north of the arsenal and returned for use on the base. Councilmember Marks said he had heard Dr. Dahlberg say later on that "the scientific communityis concerned that what would be going into the atmosphere with the airstripping which might just be contri- buting further to the "greenhouse effect" on the planet feared by some experts". Mayor Sundland said he had posed a similar question to Dr. Dahlberg on another occasion when he had expressed his own concerns about "airstripping TCE's" out over the high school next to Well #3 and he told the Mayor that he also couldn't "buy" the assertion • . that airstripping wouldn't cause problems. Councilmember Enrooth said one of the things about the tour of TCAAP which had alarmed him the most had been the large building "which probably cost the Army hundreds of thousands of dollars to build which was used to store contaminated dirt, dug up so it wouldn't leach into 'the groundwater anymore which the Army doesn't know what to do with, and the sight -of the yellow triple lined suits worn as pro- tection by the workers who dug up that dirt, lying on top of the dirt piles" which, from Councilmember Enrooth's .perspective, "certainly dispelled any questions related to the toxicity of the materials .which were dug up" and supported the Assistant Attorney General 's statement that "They 're guilty as hell '. Mayor Sundland said his own concerns hadn 't been diminished a bit when someone at TCAAP told him the airstripped water running out of pipe on the ground was "probably the safest water to drink on the base". The Mayor and the Councilmember both reported being followed closely by a cameraman who took pictures of them everywhere they went on the tour. Councilmember Enrooth reported on his and Councilmember Marks' August meeting with representatives of District #282 School Board related to a new lease for the City's use of the Park View facilities, at which only a few minutes was devoted to discussion of.thelease and at least 45 minutes to other subjects, including areas of cooperation between the City and School District. The Councilmember reported the School District would be presenting proposed lease costs for a one or two year extension of the City's lease at another joint meeting scheduled for October 8th, but indicated he had no idea of what that lease would cost the City. However, he was certain their proposal would be returned to the Council for either approval or further -negotiations if its terms were unacceptable. Councilmember Marks said he would expect a "very useful " • meeting of the School/City negotiating team would follow where the City's concerns about long :range issues could be expressed.