[CPEO-BIF] LaCrosse, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DNR touts green for brownfield redevelopment

By Chris Hubbuch
LaCrosse Tribune (WI)
June 24, 2015

When factories close, the contamination left behind can plague a site for years, discouraging reuse of otherwise good real estate.

More than 50 years after La Crosse’s gas light plant shut down, Xcel Energy is still finishing cleanup of the 4-acre site at Second Street and Copeland Avenue, a project that has dragged on for decades and cost millions of dollars.

Xcel removed or treated some 85,000 tons of soil contaminated with arsenic, lead, cyanide left behind during the roughly 100 years when gas was extracted from coal.

The utility, which purchased the plant in 1923 and operated it until 1960, is now ready to request closure of the site from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which has  overseen the cleanup.

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For the entire article, see
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/dnr-touts-green-for-brownfield-redevelopment/article_bbb2c137-7957-573a-a227-99a35bb8bfa3.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Mountain View, CA 94041
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