From: | bobh@np.craigslist.org |
Date: | 18 Oct 2007 21:51:16 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Subdivision residents on former BF seek damages against city |
Judge approves settlement for toxic Buffalo neighborhood By CAROLYN THOMPSON Newsday BUFFALO, N.Y. - Residents of a neighborhood built on contaminated soil would share $7.2 million under a settlement approved by a state Supreme Court judge Wednesday. About 220 current and former residents and their family members have personal injury and property damage claims against the city, which developed the Hickory Woods subdivision in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a model of brownfields renewal. If approved by the city's financial control board, the settlement would pay an average of $32,000 per claim. ...Home buyers received $20,000 subsidies to move into the south Buffalo neighborhood of about 60 homes adjacent to a site used for decades by the steel industry. When the contamination was discovered later, home values plummeted and residents reported a variety of health problems, including asthma, cancer and birth defects. For the entire article, see: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--toxicneighborhood1017oct17,0,3708167.story Bob Hersh CPEO _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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