[CPEO-BIF] Brownfield wine

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfield-based vineyard ready to expand

Associated Press
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram (OH)
August 7, 2007

FAIRPORT HARBOR - Walking across chalky ground on a hot day at a large 
industrial brownfield, grape researcher Imed Dami points with pride to 
rows of green, leafy vines at a small, experimental vineyard.

Can this brownfield - monitored by environmental regulators due to a 
history of chemical hazards - really produce potable red (Cabernet 
Franc) and white (Riesling) varieties?

"You know what? That's a good question," says Dami, an Ohio State 
University horticulture professor. "That's a perception. We try to do 
our research as objectively as possible, and we haven't seen anything 
for the public to worry about."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chroniclet.com/2007/08/04/brownfield-based-vineyard-ready-to-expand/

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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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