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Joust and wooO Smoke @re greater sources of PAHes than Coal-tar sealants <br />w1flat they think they will do." L-eHuray said. "The bans will nor, o <br />But Outlawing the sealants has worked wellfor \tAite Bear Lake <br />ode. if Surch sajo, From our persPeCtive there wasn't a down <br />st <br />TO cooperate with the ban, many farg <br />E_ 11 Cq <br />asphaft based sealants, he saici. e retailers have taken Coal-tar sealants off their s! elves and rejol c d them with <br />he sai <br />Acceptable product-S carry a labelthat says asphalt immersion, �f <br />Businesses aISO switched -to asphqft products, Burch said. The [sea fantj industo. was ver/ concerned, but � talke "to <br />private Commercial guys doing PPPlications on driveways 0 <br />They told me 'hat they've 90t a" types of oroducts. <br />C! <br />The cOst 01' disposing of sediments starts wn-en a, city hires someone to take a $ample and test it. ner se iments can <br />be SCooped <br />C J f ponds and spread on the ground a$ frill, but costs climb if It must be taken ' to a landfilil, Berger said, <br />Even if cit" <br />ies Could a,111`6rd it, there isn't room in landfift to accept all the contaminated on sediments. <br />i t I <br />Yfith that 'n mind, Mite Bear 'Lake is now testing the prospects for st-loring sediments In a ber <br />where they were removed. C Ose to Varney Lake, <br />"1110,4 will dePOsit the sediments, cover it over, seed it and put a trail on top," Starch said, 1'f0!10W-u0 monitoring shows tha,�- <br />Q contaminants staY Dut and don't become a probtem, will be a lle�ss-expensive option "" terrain <br />the sediments, Surcjj <br />said. to <br />Laurie Slake * 952-746-3287 <br />0 2011 Star Tribune <br />