[CPEO-BIF] Gilbert and Bennett Wire, Redding, Connecticut

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rell gives $600,000 for mill redevelopment
Money would go to removing asbestos, lead from Gilbert and Bennett Wire site

By Mark Langlois
DANBURY NEWS-TIMES (CT)
February 18, 2006

The state is breathing life into the proposed redevelopment of the Gilbert
and Bennett Wire mill site.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell awarded a $600,000 small cities community development
block grant to the town of Redding and Georgetown Land Development Co. to
remove asbestos, lead and other hazardous materials left at the abandoned
mill.

Redding First Selectman Natalie Ketchum said the town, which isn't
considered a small city by anyone's standards, meets the state's criteria
for the grant because it involves redevelopment of a brownfield - a
contaminated site that must be cleaned up before anyone can use it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://news.newstimeslive.com/story.php?id=80107&category=Local

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org



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