[CPEO-BIF] State building site, Bennington, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

More testing for possible state building site

NEAL P. GOSWAMI
Bennington Banner (VT)
December 4, 2008

BENNINGTON - Officials say further environmental testing will take place 
at a downtown building that the state is hoping will house state 
employees. The building's owners, meanwhile, maintain the building is 
safe, and will be made safer over the next few weeks to extinguish any 
lingering doubts.

Brownfields site

The Applejack Real Estate-owned building at 210 South St., former site 
of the Vermont Country Store's call center, was built on top of a 
brownfields site — land that may be contaminated by low concentrations 
of hazardous waste or pollution, but can be reused once cleaned up.

State officials are hoping to use the building to house displaced state 
employees that were pulled out of the local state office complex on 
Veterans Memorial Drive in 2007 because of health concerns.

The state learned in June 2006 that at least six past and present 
employees there had developed the rare disease sarcoidosis. Many other 
employees had complained of asthma and other respiratory ailments. 
Workers are now in modular offices on the grounds of the state complex 
while state officials determine where employees will permanently work.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_11135281

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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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