[CPEO-BIF] Phoenix landfill, Havelock, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County, city clash over Phoenix site

By Drew C. Wilson
Havelock News (NC)
September 21, 2010

Craven County commissioners pointed to Havelock, saying Monday that city 
officials needed to take the lead in pursing a federal grant to begin a 
cleanup at the abandoned Phoenix landfill recycling site.

Meanwhile, the state entered into a contract with a Raleigh company to 
begin testing for hazardous metals and for the removal of capacitors at 
the site.

The site is just outside Havelock city limits in Craven County between 
the Tucker Creek and MacDonald Downs subdivisions that are in the city 
limits.

Craven commissioners told a group of Havelock officials during a meeting 
Monday that it would not act as the lead agency in an application for a 
Brownfield grant to conduct a more thorough assessment at the Phoenix 
landfill site.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.havenews.com/news/county-7560-city-site.html


See also http://www.havenews.com/news/water-7538-addison-samples.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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