2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:14:59 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Harbor Point, Baltimore, Maryland
 
Environment agencies delay Harbor Point work Regulators call for new air tests, reject environmental safeguards

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
November 1, 2013

Plans to build offices and condominiums at Harbor Point hit a new snag Friday as federal and state regulators rejected the developer's plans for protecting the public from toxic contamination in the ground during construction at the former factory site.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Maryland Department of the Environment called for many minor revisions to the Beatty Development Group's plan, which an EPA spokeswoman characterized as largely routine, with "no showstoppers."

But regulators also ordered more air sampling to correct what they said were flaws in earlier monitoring. The tests found what may have been "artificially high" readings of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in the air at the 27-acre site and elsewhere downtown, officials said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-gr-harbor-point- denial-20131101,0,7879351.story#ixzz2jh1MEw7N

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