2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 27 Mar 2007 20:39:10 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Appleton, Wisconsin
 
Appleton site cleanups earn 'badge of honor'

DNR praises city's commitment to environmental efforts

By Steve Wideman
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI)
March 27, 2007

APPLETON - Nationally recognized success in Wisconsin to clean up contaminated industrial sites for redevelopment is a badge of honor for state Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Hassett.

But Hassett said he was not aware until told Monday of the return of dozens of eagles to the Fox River, including roosting in trees bordering a former industrial site cleaned up as a result of a partnership between the city and state.

Hassett and local officials gathered at Trolley Square off Olde Oneida Street to mark reclamation of a 2.7-acre site along the river previously contaminated with arsenic, lead and petroleum compounds.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/APC0101/703270606/1979/frontpage

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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