2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Donaldson Art Sign site, Covington, Ohio
 
Covington cleaning up brownfield site for development


Scott Wartman
Zanesville Times Recorder
April 6, 2011
COVINGTON - A federal grant will fund the cleanup this summer of a former industrial site in the Wallace Woods neighborhood of Covington and will pave the way for a company to move onto the site.

Since it was a carnival ground in 1884, the vacant property in the 2100-block of Donaldson Avenue has housed a soap factory, multiple oil companies and, most recently, the Donaldson Art Sign company.

This history has left arsenic, lead, and chemicals related to petroleum, paints and solvents in the ground and led to its designation as a brownfield site and the city receiving $111,066 from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up. The city acquired the site in 2008.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/AB/20110406/ NEWS0103/104070343/0/NEWS0104/Covington-cleaning-up-brownfield-site- development?odyssey=nav%7Chead

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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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