Boy Scouts want STEM park in South Bend, IN...

[mrkstvns]

La Salle Council is planning a first-of-its-kind "STEM Park".

Read all about it...
https://www.wndu.com/content/news/SB-area-boy-scouts-shoot-for-nations-first-outdoor-STEM-park-510284151.html 

 

[qwazse]

... or, as I call it, a scout camp -- i.e., where youth actually learn to do stuff unto perfection.

[RememberSchiff]

Wednesday on the park grounds, a methane burner stands as a reminder that the lessons learned at Fredrickson Park thus far have been learned the hard way.

The land, donated by the Fredrickson family, once served as a dump. The city discovered environmental problems and spent some $800,000 to ‘cap’ the park area. 

Now, the Boy Scouts have marching orders to raise and spend up to $400,000 to make the park a place for kids to learn STEM lessons the easy way.   

Like don't build a park over a methane spewing toxic landfill.  This is an EPA brownfield site.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/bf_factsheets/gfs/rlf_activities.cfm?fs_id=2255&xpg_id=3068

On April 9, 2007, the City of South Bend, Indiana, made a loan of$176,000 and a sub-grant of $100,000 to the South Bend Redevelopment Commission to assist with cleanup costs associated with the Fredrickson Park North Extension. These were made possible through a $250,000 EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant awarded to the City of South Bend in 2004. The cleanup, which was completed in June 2007, removed contamination on the former landfill. In addition to EPA funding, the South Bend Redevelopment Commission, leveraged $1,000,000 in redevelopment funding through federal, local and private partnerships. The Fredrickson Park North Extension was redeveloped into a Boy Scouts Resource Center that opened in April, 2007. For more information about this loan or the City of South Bend EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund, contact the EPA Region 5 Brownfields Coordinator at (312) 886-7576.

IMHO, leave the place be and pitch your tent elsewhere.

my $0.02

Edited May 28, 2019 by RememberSchiff