[CPEO-BIF] "Mainspring projects to transform East Franklin, " North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mainspring projects to transform East Franklin

by Jessi Stone
Smoky Mountain News (NC)
April 12, 2017

Mainspring Conservation Trust has several cleanup projects in the works that once completed will transform East Franklin for the better.

Mainspring started tidying up East Main Street in 2015 when the nonprofit purchased the former Duncan Oil site next door to its office. Knowing the old abandoned gas station property had caused some level of ground contamination, and since it was so close to the banks of the Little Tennessee River, Mainspring decided to buy the 1.5-acre property to clean it up.

It was a complicated and labor-intensive project to take on, but Mainspring acquired a brownfields agreement through the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and secured grant funding from the Cherokee Preservation Fund and $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make it happen. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/19686-mainspring-projects-to-transform-east-franklin

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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