[CPEO-BIF] Waterbury, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Waterbury eyesores may finally get cleaned up

BY PENELOPE OVERTON
Waterbury Republican American (CT)
June 13, 2009

WATERBURY -- Environmental contamination in the Brass City is so 
widespread, local people say, that all you have to do to find it is 
stick a shovel in the ground. Anywhere.

Now, after years of talk and study about cleaning up the city's old 
industrial sites, visible progress is being made for the first time 
since the transformation of the former Scovill Brass Mill into the Brass 
Mill Center mall more than a decade ago.

In fact, it appears the city is about to enjoy an explosion of cleanups 
on contaminated and underutilized industrial sites known as brownfields. 
Prospects include the old Chase Brass & Copper Co. mill, empty textile 
factories in the Cherry Street Industrial Park and the old Mattatuck 
Manufacturing Co. factory.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/06/13/news/doc4a3459d7c5e07024771501.txt

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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