[CPEO-BIF] Queensgate South, Cincinnati, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former brownfield green-lighted for development

Matt Cunningham
Soapbox Cincinnati (OH)
May 24, 2011

An eight-year-long city initiative to clean up a heavily contaminated  
'brownfield' reached a culminating point this month. The Ohio EPA  
cleared the way for redevelopment of the Queensgate South industrial/ 
business site on Mehring Way. The former junkyard is now a potential  
development site featuring 17 acres zoned for office, industrial or  
high-tech use.

"That was a long time coming," said Cincinnati Business Development  
Manager William Fischer. He explained that 50 years of use as a scrap  
yard had left the roughly 16-acre site contaminated with PCBs, heavy  
metals and petroleum products. This meant that any remediation work  
would have to meet the approval of both state and federal officials.

"There were contaminants on the site that were regulated by both the  
US and Ohio EPA," Fischer said. "It was a lot of work to coordinate  
those cleanups."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/0524brownfielddevelopment.aspx

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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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