2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Recession worsens brownfields backlog in Wisconsin"
 
Recession worsens brownfields backlog in Wisconsin
Long after a red icicle's discovery, industrial pollution haunts a Lake Michigan neighborhood

by Kate Golden, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
Wisconsin Watch
September 23, 2012

OAK CREEK - Sarah Preciado, a lifelong resident of the Carrollville neighborhood, remembers how it was once a bustling place. Her great- grandfather was the first Mexican worker at the glue factory that was across Fifth Avenue. Her grandfather, who planted the pear and peach trees at her house, worked there too.

But the glue factory is long gone, along with a chemical plant, aluminum smelter and other factories from the past century. Now dilapidated buildings in overgrown lots sprawl across 260 acres, where the soil and groundwater are polluted with arsenic, chromium, lead and other chemicals, and some fences gape from vandals’ gashes.

Preciado said the abandoned properties have blighted her neighborhood.

...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources estimates there are 10,000 brownfields in Wisconsin, with a disproportionate number in poor and rural neighborhoods - the places least likely to have the resources to clean them up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2012/09/23/recession-worsens- brownfields-backlog-in-wisconsin/

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