[CPEO-BIF] Soil-booster test at foundry site, South Bend, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reclaiming the land
Companies team up for new look on field

By JIM MEENAN
South Bend Tribune (IN)
August 1, 2011

SOUTH BEND - As you drive by it on Indiana Avenue and Lafayette  
Boulevard, the large open field with prairie grass, black-eyed  
Susans, weeds and wildflowers may not seem too significant. It has  
three new park benches facing it, some short rolling hills you might  
expect to see on a golf course and a handful of new trees. But like a  
lot of things, what's beneath the surface of this one-acre plot where  
a foundry once stood makes it all the more worth a look.



Part of the parcel near the new Transpo building is being fertilized  
with New~Life Super Soil Booster, and the rest could be in the future.



The important thing is it's getting results on an old brownfield that  
on a closer look still has its share of glass, rocks, even iron ore,  
among other things sitting on once quite contaminated soil.



"The goal is to get this to look like a prairie in short order," said  
Dan Pavich, chief engineering officer for Creative Energy Solutions  
of Bristol, which produces New~Life Super Soil Boosters, which  
utilizes Asian carp, turning it into an organic fertilizer.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.southbendtribune.com/sbt-reclaiming-the- 
land-20110801,0,6022493.story

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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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