[CPEO-BIF] Second story in Omaha, Nebraska

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA wants NoDo residences upstairs due to contaminated land

BY NANCY GAARDER
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD (NE)
June 4, 2007

Some of the condos, apartments and other living quarters in the heart of 
the trendy redevelopment of Omaha's north downtown will have to be on 
the second floor of buildings or higher, under restrictions the EPA is 
proposing.

Contaminated land in the NoDo area once used by Union Pacific Railroad 
is being cleaned up, but generally not to a level intended to 
accommodate residential development, according to Environmental 
Protection Agency documents.

However, because civic and business leaders have indicated that housing 
is essential to reviving the area, the EPA has created "contingent" 
cleanup standards to allow residential use, EPA project manager Ken 
Herstowski said.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2396130
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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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