[CPEO-BIF] Clarksville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City risks leaving $100,000 on table in EPA cleanup grants
Money to study decades-old contamination in abandoned areas

By ERIC SNYDER
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle (TN)
December 29, 2006

Clarksville could end up using only half of a $200,000 property 
rehabilitation grant it won in 2005 because of a lack of participation 
from landowners.

The city received the Environmental Protection Agency grant to assess 
contamination levels in "brownfield" sites. Brownfields are lands once 
used by businesses like auto salvage yards, gas stations, dry cleaners 
and factories - businesses that decades ago were dumping their waste 
products on site, unaware of the environmental and health effects.

The federal funds are earmarked to identify petroleum contamination on 
local properties and develop plans for cleaning them.

"We are searching for under-used or abandoned properties that may serve, 
at some point in the future, as a piece of real estate that could be 
developed," said city Grants Manager Ron McClurg, who is coordinating 
the Clarksville brownfield project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061229/NEWS01/612290343
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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