[CPEO-BIF] Echo Lake Brownfields, Watertown, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Echo Lake Brownfield defends application

By James Perucci
Watertown Town Times (WA)
July 9, 2009

Echo Lake Brownfield defended its application to close an existing 
landfill, pipe a watercourse through a 620-foot culvert and cover the 
location with 212,000 cubic yards of fill at 0 Echo Lake Road during the 
first portion of a public hearing before the Planning & Zoning 
Commission on Wednesday, July 1.

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Echo Lake Brownfield provided defense for its application by addressing 
specific points as residents and legal interveners have expressed 
concerns over the project.

Diane Duva, assistant director of the Waste Engineering and Enforcement 
Division of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, also 
spoke on the project, detailing finer legal points such as definitions 
for fill, clean soil and polluted soil.

The origins of the fill being used are not yet known by P&Z members. At 
the previous meeting of the P&Z Commission, some P&Z members questioned 
the site's existing contamination as well as the amount of oversight the 
project will receive.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20343554&BRD=1379&PAG=461&dept_id=162906&rfi=6

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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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