2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:15:37 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Newark Processing Co. site solar, Newark, Ohio
 
Capped aluminum site to be new home of solar installation

Chris Meehan
Clean Energy Authority
April 1, 2011

In a bid to revitalize the city of Newark, Ohio, the city is considering installing a photovoltaic array over a blighted brownfield. It will issue a request for proposals (RFP) in the coming weeks to install solar on up to a 40-acre section of the brownfield to power city buildings.

The former Newark Processing Co. aluminum dross extraction plant produced aluminum dross waste as a byproduct of the extraction process. The company began operations in 1980 at the site and went bankrupt in 1996.

The site is currently being capped, thanks to a $2 million Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grant, said Stuart Moynihan, Newark’s economic development coordinator. The work on the cap is slated for completion by the end of 2011.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/newark-ohio-to- build-solar-on-brownfield-040111/

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org

  Prev by Date: [CPEO-BIF] Donaldson Art Sign Company site, Covington, Kentucky
Next by Date: [CPEO-BIF] Nu-Style jewelry manufacturing building, Franklin, Massachusetts
  Prev by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] Donaldson Art Sign Company site, Covington, Kentucky
Next by Thread: [CPEO-BIF] Nu-Style jewelry manufacturing building, Franklin, Massachusetts

CPEO Home
CPEO Lists
Author Index
Date Index
Thread Index