[CPEO-BIF] Ithaca Falls parkland and Ithaca Gun site, Ithaca, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ithaca Gun lead may halt inlet work

Inlet Island development hinges on parkland trade

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
July 30, 2008

ITHACA - Proper cleanup of Ithaca Falls could impact development 
possibilities at more than just Ithaca Gun.

Development on Inlet Island could also depend on whether the city is 
able to fully remediate the area around the former gun factory, because 
the city bought the Ithaca Falls land to act as substitute parkland for 
the land they wanted to develop on Inlet Island.

But New York State's Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic 
Preservation never accepted the Ithaca Falls property as parkland 
because of its extensive lead contamination, Finger Lakes Regional 
Director Tim Joseph said Tuesday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080730/NEWS01/807300315

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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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