[CPEO-BIF] Ogden (UT) Rec Center

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Digging deeper at site

By John Wright
Standard-Examiner (UT)
September 5, 2005

Ogden seeks designation to help pay for more tests

OGDEN -- State environmental officials refuse to sign off on a
high-adventure recreation center for the downtown mall site until the city
has more soil and groundwater tests completed.

Meanwhile, Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey said the city plans to seek a
special designation that would make the 20-acre parcel eligible for federal
funds to pay for additional environmental tests.

With increases in construction costs looming, the city is moving forward
with its own tests of the 11/2-acre site where the $18.5 million recreation
center would be built because, at a meeting last week, state Department of
Environmental Quality representatives reported they could not issue a
"letter of no further action" on the site based on the two rounds of tests
that found petroleum and tetrachloroethylene.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.standard.net/standard/61360/


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