2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Echo Lake Brownfields, Watertown, Connecticut
 
Echo Lake Brownfield defends application

By James Perucci
Watertown Town Times (WA)
July 9, 2009

Echo Lake Brownfield defended its application to close an existing landfill, pipe a watercourse through a 620-foot culvert and cover the location with 212,000 cubic yards of fill at 0 Echo Lake Road during the first portion of a public hearing before the Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday, July 1.

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Echo Lake Brownfield provided defense for its application by addressing specific points as residents and legal interveners have expressed concerns over the project.

Diane Duva, assistant director of the Waste Engineering and Enforcement Division of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, also spoke on the project, detailing finer legal points such as definitions for fill, clean soil and polluted soil.

The origins of the fill being used are not yet known by P&Z members. At the previous meeting of the P&Z Commission, some P&Z members questioned the site's existing contamination as well as the amount of oversight the project will receive.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20343554&BRD=1379&PAG=461&dept_id=162906&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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