[CPEO-BIF] National Welding site, Newington, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Asbestos-Contaminated Site will be Cleaned Up

By Jensen Whitmer
Asbestos.com
July 11, 2008

An abandoned industrial site in Newington, Connecticut is scheduled for 
environmental remediation. The site is a former National Welding factory 
and contains large amounts of asbestos. All asbestos-containing 
materials will need to be removed before the buildings on the site can 
be demolished.

Despite the extent of contamination, town officials plan to clean up the 
location for commercial development purposes, and will be soliciting 
bids from developers over the next few months.

Dave Hurley, an environmental engineer, has told the council that the 
property will cost more to clean up than it is currently worth, but 
"it's not astronomical. It's all doable." Hurley is with the consulting 
firm Fuss & O'Neill, which carried out an environmental study on the site.


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For the entire article, see
http://news.asbestos.com/2008/07/11/asbestos-contaminated-site-will-be-cleaned-up/

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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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