[CPEO-BIF] Jeannette, Pennsylvania housing project

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$500,000 grant to aid remediation for Jeannette housing project

By Paul Paterra
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW (PA)
May 10, 2008

A nearly $500,000 grant will be used to help Jeannette clean two blocks 
of dirt likely contaminated by years of industry in the city.

The soil in the South Sixth Street Revitalization Project must be 
remediated after buildings are razed and before 25 single-family homes 
and 18 townhouses are built between Bullitt Avenue to Cassatt Avenue.

Diana Reitz, Jeannette's community development director, said the 
$480,000 in Brownfield Economic Development Initiative funds awarded 
last week will also help to move utility lines.

"A lot of times with old industrial sites, any properties within close 
proximity end up having soil contamination. When you're in close 
proximity to an old glass factory, you're going to run into it," Reitz 
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_566791.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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