[CPEO-BIF] Iowa River Landing, Coralville, IA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

(In case you're wondering why I haven't been cluttering your In Boxes  
for a while, I've been on vacation. It will take me a while to post  
the news stories that came in while I was traveling. - LS)

City steps in to recycle properties
Program reclaims areas that likely wouldn't be used

by Tara Bannow
Iowa City Press-Citizen
April 26, 2012  |


Coralville officials gave a guided tour of the construction that's  
happening in the Iowa River Landing, using the opportunity to explain  
the city's Brownfield Program, which has played a major role in the  
area’s development.

The EPA defines a "brownfield" as a property, the expansion,  
redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or  
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or  
contaminant. The negative perception of brownfields - made famous by  
such infamous cleanup sites in Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. -  
has caused people to view them as places that should be avoided  
rather than developed.

"The thing about brownfields is there's kind of a negative stigma to  
them, that if something is called a brownfield, they think it's  
automatically bad," said Eric Isaacs, Coralville’s Brownfields  
project coordinator. "Being classified a brownfield just means  
there's the perception of contamination."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20120427/NEWS01/304270010/City- 
steps-recycle-properties?odyssey=nav|head

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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