[CPEO-BIF] Roanoke (VA) Fill from flood control project used at nearby brownfields

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

Dirt from park project will benefit site nearby

The Roanoke Times
11/24/07
By Annie Johnson

Workers from a Roanoke construction company will soon begin digging up the
land adjacent to the Roanoke River in Wasena Park thanks to Roanoke City
Council's go-ahead earlier this week.

The pending removal of some 170 trees and a portion of Wiley Drive has been
highly controversial among some residents. But little attention has been
paid to the dirt that will be moved for the flood-reduction project. It's a
lot: an estimated 45,000 cubic yards of sediment and soil that will fill
about 3,700 dump trucks.

Enter Andy Douthat, president of Allegheny Construction Co. His workers will
take that dirt and haul it down the road to the site of the old 7-Up
bottling plant off Cleveland Avenue -- a brownfield site targeted by the
city for redevelopment.

For the entire articles, see:
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/140890

Bob Hersh
CPEO


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