[CPEO-BIF] Downtown Springfield, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfield cleanup gets state approval

By Samantha Sommer
Springfield News Sun (OH)
January 9, 2009

Springfield, Ohio - The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has given 
its seal of approval to the city's cleanup of a downtown brownfield.

The Ohio EPA has issued a covenant not to sue for the former Haucke 
complex, 301 to 339 E. Main St. and 14 to 16 S. Plum St.

Under the covenant announced Friday, Jan. 9, the state agrees the site 
doesn't need further environmental cleaning and that it won't sue in the 
future.

The city of Springfield is happy to receive the agreement, said Shannon 
Meadows, community development director.

"It's another step in the direction of the redevelopment of downtown," 
she said. "Yet another piece of property that may have sat idle for 
years due to past unregulated contamination is now available for 
redevelopment."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/09/sns011009oepa.html

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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
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