2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:50:30 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ohio Leather Works, Girard, Ohio
 
Transforming a tannery

By Robert Guttersohn
Youngstown Vindicator
January 18, 2012

GIRARD - After years of failed negotiations over the contaminated Ohio Leather Co. property, the city began the process of obtaining the 27 acres through foreclosure Tuesday.

Mayor James Melfi requested the city’s legal counsel use the $75,000 lien Girard placed on the property as leverage for the foreclosure.

The Ohio Leather Works operated along U.S. Route 422 for more than 70 years, taking skin hides from stockyards in Chicago and making leather apparel.

...

Kocher said past investigators found traces of hexavalent chromium, the solution chemicals used on leather, on the outskirts of the property. Because cement rubble still covers the basement, the EPA’s probe could not test the solution tanks in the basement.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/18/transforming-tannery/

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