[CPEO-BIF] Oklahoma

[lsiegel at cpeo.org (Lenny Siegel)]

Tulsa: 'Brownfield' site seeing green
Environment Program aims to return once-polluted land in Oklahoma to 
productive use

BY GAVIN OFF
Tulsa World (OK)
January 25, 2009


TULSA - From N Peoria Avenue, one would never know that the 10-acre 
property was once heavily polluted.

One would never know that officials once detected slight radioactivity 
along its northern edge or that the area used to be covered in so much 
sand that grass couldn't grow.

 From N Peoria Avenue, there's nothing unusual about the Brainerd 
Chemical Co. property near U.S. 75.

And that's exactly what federal, state and local agencies intended.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newsok.com/tulsa-brownfield-site-seeing-green/article/3340540
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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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