[CPEO-BIF] Cuppers Cafe, Somerset, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

From brownfield to black gold

By Marc Munroe Dion
Wicked Local Somerset (MA)
July 26, 2008

Somerset -

Want a cup of coffee? Maybe a latte? How about a bagel?
Look for the old gas station.

At 1857 County St., in a former gas station now spruced up, husband and 
wife team Gayle and Mark Ulrich recently opened a monument to good coffee.

And persistence.

"I like to make things better," Gayle Ulrich said, sitting on a leather 
couch inside the spacious white-walled Cuppers Cafe, a new coffee and 
gathering place occupying a vintage 1964 gas station.

Before its current incarnation, the site was a brownfield, contaminated 
with gas and oil. The former owner removed the old gas tanks, but only 
went down 12 feet into the soil in a cleanup effort. Environmental 
agencies said that was eight feet too few.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerset/news/business/x390639897/From-brownfield-to-black-gold

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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