2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:16:36 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Norden Systems site housing, Norwalk, Connecticut
 
Group seeks $15K to appeal project at ex-Norden site

By TOM EVANS
Norwalk News - The Hour (CT)
November 30, 2009


Residents concerned about a housing development planned at the former Norden Systems, Inc., property are seeking to raise $15,000 by Friday to mount an appeal to the project.

A meeting with the "No To Rezone" residents' organization, and its attorney, will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 95 New Canaan Ave., a stand-alone building across the street from the Broad River Fire Department.

The appeal would be against the city's Zoning Commission, which unanimously approved both a zone change to allow residential use of land zoned for Restricted Industrial, and the application for construction of the 240-unit rental housing project, at its Nov. 18 meeting.

...

"The site contains TCE above the safety levels determined by the (Environmental Protection Agency)," Giordano said. "TCE is a cancer-causing, DNA-changing chemical used to clean equipment when it was considered a Defense Department site for United Technologies. Chemical plumes have broken through the bedrock at least 110 feet in depth. TCE has contaminated drinking wells as far as a quarter-mile away in the past."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehour.com/story/478761

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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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