[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut's new brownfields law

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield Cleanup A Must

Editorial
Hartford Courant (CT)
July 2 2006

One of the unfortunate aspects of the eminent domain battle in New 
London's Fort Trumbull neighborhood was that it obscured a successful 
program on an adjacent property.

...

There have been other successes in developing brownfields across the 
state, from Waterbury's Brass Mill Center to Hartford's Learning 
Corridor and Adriaen's Landing to Windham Mills in Willimantic. Since 
1993, the state has invested $320 million in brownfield remediation, 
which has leveraged $700 million in private investment and brought 740 
acres back into use.

By reusing that land, according to a federal formula, more than 3,000 
acres of greenfield land have been spared the bulldozer.

Although there have also been some federal and many privately funded 
brownfield remediations in the state, there is still much to do; still 
hundreds of industrial and commercial sites that must be cleaned and 
reused if the state is to rebuild density in town centers to halt the 
low-density sprawl development that is inexorably consuming the state's 
fields and farms.

A state statute that went into effect Saturday should help.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-brownfield.artjul02,0,2052789.story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials

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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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