[CPEO-BIF] Galveston, Texas incinerator site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plan eases land cleanup rules

By Leigh Jones
Galveston Daily News (TX)
January 10, 2007

GALVESTON - The two yellow brick towers of the city's old incinerator 
site peek over the Broadway tree line, a reminder to city leaders that 
the property still has something to offer island residents.

Sandwiched between the commercial center housing Target and Home Depot 
and the new county justice center, the 2-acre site north of Interstate 
45 is a prime redevelopment location.

But it also is one of the city's most severely contaminated properties.

The gallons of petroleum and hydrocarbons that have seeped into the soil 
through the years have hindered redevelopment because the toxic mess is 
expensive to clean up.

Anxious to encourage new building on the site and others like it, the 
Galveston City Council is considering implementing a new Texas 
Commission on Environmental Quality designation that limits the amount 
of cleanup developers must do before beginning a new project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=19b43927b7c557e8
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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