2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:19:36 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] LTV coke works site, Hazelwood (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania
 
Former LTV coke works property in Hazelwood taking a step up
Fill to raise land in preparation for building

By Diana Nelson Jones
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
December 25, 2011

Pittsburgh's last brownfield may yet rise as new development from the ashes of its past but first it will rise, literally, by 6 to 8 feet.

At the former LTV coke works in Hazelwood, truckloads of fill have been collecting over the past six years toward a goal of one million cubic yards to elevate new development above the flood plain. This layer also will allow for the burial of utility lines and other infrastructure without the cost of digging out old foundations.

A collaboration between Almono LLC -- a consortium of four foundations that bought the site in 2002 -- its site manager RIDC (Regional Industrial Development Corp.) and numerous large-scale developers has saved everyone huge costs, said Don Smith, president of RIDC.

"We have close to 800,000 cubic yards of fill from the chunnel and every major development project in the area," he said. "It might have been an $8 million to $12 million cost for us, but it was donated. It's a win-win for everybody, because the fill would otherwise have to have been disposed of at a cost" to developers.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11359/1198976-53.stm

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