[CPEO-BIF] Trinity Uptown, Fort Worth, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Trinity Uptown officials face difficult decision on site cleanup


By BILL HANNA
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
July 18, 2009

FORT WORTH — The Trinity River Vision Authority wants to clean up an 
environmentally sensitive area in the Trinity Uptown project that, 
without the authority's help, could become a no man's land in the middle 
of a bustling development.

For now, the authority's board members appear reluctant to commit any 
more money to clean up the site for this or three other canals that have 
been discussed because the project's estimated cost climbed to $880 
million last week.

Tarrant County Administrator G.K. Maenius, president of the authority's 
board, said he believes that the authority will eventually tackle the 
issue of what to do with the polluted site.

"I think we're going to have to deal with it one way or the other," 
Maenius said.

The site, which is owned by Luminant, the power company formerly known 
as TXU, has lead contamination in the soil and vinyl chloride, among 
other solvents, in the groundwater.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1494113.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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