Olson and St. Croix Group had been developing the site on the bluff tops of the Mississippi River, according to the complaint filed by Assistant Attorney General Tom Dosch of the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The suit asks for temporary and permanent injunctions and civil forfeitures.
State law requires that the controls be in place within seven days.
State law requires that inspections be done within 24 hours of every major rain and that necessary re-seeding be done immediately. The property is in the towns of Oak Grove and Diamond Bluff and is bordered on the west by the Mississippi and on the north by Big River. This suit is the third civil case filed against St. Croix Group since the Pierce County Land Management Committee revoked permits in November of 1997. In May of 1998, Construction Mortgage Investors Company, Excelsior, Minn., began action to foreclose on its mortgage. A few days later, Roger and Roman Peterson, Prescott, and trustees for the Alan L. Frank Family Trust began action to foreclose on land contracts.