2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 29 Dec 2006 23:11:24 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Clarksville, Tennessee
 
City risks leaving $100,000 on table in EPA cleanup grants
Money to study decades-old contamination in abandoned areas

By ERIC SNYDER
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle (TN)
December 29, 2006

Clarksville could end up using only half of a $200,000 property rehabilitation grant it won in 2005 because of a lack of participation from landowners.

The city received the Environmental Protection Agency grant to assess contamination levels in "brownfield" sites. Brownfields are lands once used by businesses like auto salvage yards, gas stations, dry cleaners and factories - businesses that decades ago were dumping their waste products on site, unaware of the environmental and health effects.

The federal funds are earmarked to identify petroleum contamination on local properties and develop plans for cleaning them.

"We are searching for under-used or abandoned properties that may serve, at some point in the future, as a piece of real estate that could be developed," said city Grants Manager Ron McClurg, who is coordinating the Clarksville brownfield project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061229/NEWS01/612290343
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