[CPEO-BIF] Former Vermilion Iron Works property, Hoopestown, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield program targets sites for development

by Tracy Moss
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette (IL)
November 4, 2012

HOOPESTON - On a recent inspection of a former iron works facility in  
Hoopeston, Vermilion County Health Department inspector Adrianna  
Krzywicka spotted vapor spewing from a barrel.

Krzywicka first saw it through the lens of her camera while  
photographing the interior of a large, vacant building on the  
ironworks property, which is not secure and sits next to two  
community baseball diamonds.

Krzywicka, an environmental health practitioner for the Vermilion  
County Health Department, was participating in a late-October  
environmental inspection of the former New Vermilion Ironworks  
facility in north central Hoopeston along with Douglas Toole,  
director of environmental health at the county health department, and  
environmental engineers with Foth consulting in Champaign. The walk- 
through was suspended, and Toole said it will be on hold until  
Illinois EPA officials do some testing this month to determine what's  
in the various barrels on the property.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/environment/2012-11-04/brownfield- 
program-targets-sites-development.html

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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
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