[CPEO-BIF] Torrington, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City looking to ID brownfields

By DAVID HUTTER
Torrington Register Citizen (CT)
July 24, 2008

TORRINGTON - The city is looking to hire an environmental specialist 
company to identify contaminated properties as part of a project using 
federal money. The city applied to the Environmental Protection Agency 
in fall 2007 seeking grants to identity contaminated sites known as 
brownfields and potentially contaminated sites and catalog the 
information. The agency granted the city's request in April 2008, 
awarding it two grants of $200,000 apiece. One grant is to be used to 
assess grounds for petroleum and the other is for testing grounds for 
hazardous substances.

The state Department of Environmental Protection identifies 120 
locations in Torrington as contaminated or potentially contaminated 
sites as of March 13. Some of the sites have been cleaned up, according 
to the DEP. City officials on July 16 announced they are accepting bids 
from environmental specialist companies as part of the Torrington 
Brownfield Assessment Project. Companies must submit proposals by Aug. 8 
at 10 a.m.

Rose Ponte, the city's economic development director, is optimistic 
about the project. "These assessment tests will enable the city to 
identify the unknown," she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19868413&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=665579&rfi=6

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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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