[CPEO-BIF] "Baltimore County’s [Maryland] first park in six years will convert Sparrows Point brownfield into 15-acre green space"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Baltimore County’s first park in six years will convert Sparrows Point brownfield into 15-acre green space

By TAYLOR DEVILLE
BALTIMORE SUN (MD)
APRIL 6, 2021


Baltimore County may soon build its first new public park in more than six years on a swath of land within Tradepoint Atlantic, an industrial site once owned — and polluted — by the former Bethlehem Steel mill.

For the southeastern towns of Edgemere and Sparrows Point, the 15-acre park, planned along Jones Creek, would be the first built by the county after years of community calls for athletic space and a community center went largely unheard.

Sparrows Point Park is planned for the edge of a sprawling 3,100-acre campus where Bethlehem Steel’s closure in 2012 left behind an estimated $68.7 million worth of pollution cleanup efforts for Tradepoint Atlantic, according to Tradepoint officials.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-sparrows-point-park-plans-20210406-qqx7xcvmajbgfkeb5jjczvbqcu-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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