2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:27:48 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Caterpillar Inc. site, East Peoria, Illinois
 
Officials: EP site free of health risks
Some residents worry about pollutants at site of downtown project


By Leslie Williams
Peoria Journal Star (IL)
December 25, 2010

EAST PEORIA - The brownfield site where Caterpillar Inc.'s first factories stood is safe for development into a new downtown and does not pose any health threats to the public, officials say.

But as passers-by watch the abandoned manufacturing site between West Washington and Camp streets being prepared for a hotel, library, civic plaza and more, worry about underground pollutants have surfaced.

City attorney Dennis Triggs said there is no cause for alarm.

"There is zero concern," Triggs said. "We have people working out there every day, and Caterpillar people worked there for a 100 years."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pjstar.com/news/tricounty/x1547454739/Officials-EP-site-free-of-health-risks

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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