[CPEO-BIF] "Courtney, EPA laud Norwich's [Connecticut] approach to brownfield cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Courtney, EPA laud Norwich's approach to brownfield cleanup

By Adam Benson
Norwich Bulletin (CT)
March 27. 2015

NORWICH - One day after state housing officials announced a $14  
million commitment to develop Norwich’s Ponemah Mills site, city  
leaders said while gratified, they aren’t done working toward site  
improvements.

"We always talk about Ponemah because I really feel that once you get  
this going, it just starts taking off through the city. This is the  
place we needed to start," Mayor Deb Hinchey during a site walk of  
the former Taftville cotton plant that is being targeted for a $29  
million upgrade to bring 116 condominiums into mill building No. 1 by  
Hackensack, N.J.-based Onekey LLC.

Hinchey was joined by U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, and  
Environmental Protection agency regional administrator Curt Spalding,  
leading them on a walkthrough of three major city brownfields in the  
running for federal clean-up dollars.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20150327/NEWS/150329555/1994/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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