2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: "Schnapf, Lawrence" <Lawrence.Schnapf@srz.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:30:49 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields
 
Lenny,
 
was it your concern that only the hot spots where the solar equipment and infrastructure were to be located would be remediated and not the rest of the site? If one is building a solar complex on say 20 acres of a 40 acre site, should any remediation be done on the portion of the site that will not be developed? I dont know if this is typically the case or if the footprint of the project will tend to cover the entire site. perhaps some clarification might help advance the discussion.
 
L
 
 
 
 


From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Markus Niebanck
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:54 PM
To: Ed Morales; Trilling, Barry; lsiegel@cpeo.org; Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

Just a suggestion on the vernacular - it isn't that standards would be "lowered" as much as a cleanup goal would be established as a function of proposed site use.  As Ed observes, a goal that reflects the evaluation of contaminant exposure to human and ecologic health in a solar array deployment scenario.  Were the land to be cleared for unrestricted re-use it would have one cleanup goal; under a solar energy use strategy a different one.  Not a lower/higher comparison - both endpoints are identical (protective of the user and the environment).
 
Reutilizing impaired land, where practicable, for solar or wind power generation is, to me, a good thing.
 
Markus
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Morales
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

I would contend that brownfield clean-up is generally risk-based and is a function of the end-use. That said, it probably does not make sense to clean-up to a resi or commercial standard if the end-use is an un-manned solar power grid.

 

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From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Trilling, Barry
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:14 PM
To: lsiegel@cpeo.org; Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

 

Lenny: I don't understand why you suspect that otherwise applicable remediation standards will be lowered for the development of solar installations.  Can you please elaborate?

 

 

Barry

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:06 PM
To: Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

 

[I am concerned that solar generation plants will provide landowners

with an excuse not to do necessary cleanup. While centralized solar

thermal facilities generally require dedicated land surface,

photovoltaic systems work as well or better when located on rooftops or

parking-lot canopies, as opposed to the land surface. - Lenny]

 

 

US targets brownfield sites for solar makeover

 

Projects in California and Ohio highlight growing use of disused urban

sites for solar installations

 

Cath Everett

BusinessGreen

July 28, 2009

 

The US is to explore the possibility of recycling its old brownfield

sites as prime locations for new solar power generating facilities.

 

Riverside and San Bernadino counties, which are located between Los

Angeles and San Diego in California, are currently in talks with solar

power companies about redeveloping both closed and capped landfill sites

as well as land currently housing derelict public buildings.

 

The move follows the submission of bids by the providers in April, but

has been accelerated by the US Department of the Interior's announcement

last month that it was looking for large tracts of land to site 24

solar-energy study zones.

 

 

...

 

For the entire article, see

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246836/targets-brownfield-sites-solar

 

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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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http://www.cpeo.org

 

 

 

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