2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: bobh@np.craigslist.org
Date: 18 Oct 2007 21:51:16 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Subdivision residents on former BF seek damages against city
 
Judge approves settlement for toxic Buffalo neighborhood

By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Newsday

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Residents of a neighborhood built on contaminated soil would share
$7.2 million under a settlement approved by a state Supreme Court judge Wednesday.
About 220 current and former residents and their family members have personal
injury and property damage claims against the city, which developed the Hickory
Woods subdivision in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a model of brownfields
renewal.

If approved by the city's financial control board, the settlement would pay an
average of $32,000 per claim.

...Home buyers received $20,000 subsidies to move into the south Buffalo
neighborhood of about 60 homes adjacent to a site used for decades by the steel
industry. When the contamination was discovered later, home values plummeted and
residents reported a variety of health problems, including asthma, cancer and birth
defects.

For the entire article, see:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--toxicneighborhood1017oct17,0,3708167.story


Bob Hersh
CPEO

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