[CPEO-BIF] Patapsco River site, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup Funded for National Aquarium's Baltimore Brownfield

Environment News Service
May 16, 2008

BALTIMORE, Maryland - Funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency's brownfields program will help the National Aquarium's Center 
for Aquatic Life and Conservation clean up a degraded 13 acre site along 
the Patapsco River, making it fit for the new center, an environmental 
demonstration park, a public access trail and a fishing pier.

EPA has selected the nonprofit Center for Aquatic Life and Conservation 
to receive a $200,000 brownfields grant that will be used to clean up 
the center's Middle Branch site at 101 West Dickman Street in Baltimore.

"Brownfields initiatives demonstrate how environmental protection and 
economic development work hand-in-hand," said Donald Welsh, 
administrator for EPA's mid-Atlantic region. "This funding will help 
reclaim properties that have been unused for years and turn those sites 
into assets for the community, the environment and the economy."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2008/2008-05-16-092.asp

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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