[CPEO-BIF] "Cost of Sinclair [Iowa] reclamation grows"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cost of Sinclair reclamation grows
City bought former meatpacking plant before historic flood

by Brian Morelli
Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA)
January 17, 2018


CEDAR RAPIDS — The cost of cleaning up the site of the old Sinclair meatpacking plant, damaged by floodwaters and then fire, keeps growing.

Last week, the Cedar Rapids City Council quietly approved a change order for D.W. Zinser of Walford that increased the cost of an asbestos remediation project undertaken last year to $2.85 million, up 36 percent from the originally contracted $2.09 million.

This brings the total tab for cleaning up the site Cedar Rapids acquired a decade ago to more than $20 million.

“While the quantity of removed material didn’t change, the ratio of asbestos-containing material and non-asbestos material changed,” said Rob Davis, the Cedar Rapids flood control manager. “It is more expensive to remove asbestos material than non-asbestos material, and that lead to the higher costs.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/cost-of-sinclair-reclamation-grows-20180117

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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