[CPEO-BIF] Wehadkee Yarn Mills, Talladega, Alabama

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stampfler defends Wehadkee purchase

By Chris Norwood
Daily Home (AL)
July 29, 2009

TALLADEGA - City manager Michael Stampfler said Tuesday the city's vote 
to finalize the purchase of two parcels formerly belonging to Wehadkee 
Yarn Mills was driven by the overall program to rehabilitate the city’s 
brownfields.

In May, the city was awarded a $400,000 federal grant to conduct 
environmental assessments of numerous abandoned industrial sites up and 
down the Battle Street corridor. Further grants, to actually clean up 
the sites, are expected in coming years.

"This process started in August," Stampfler said. "We held numerous 
public meetings and got all kinds of letters supporting the effort. The 
grant was awarded, with everyone assuming we would go from the 
assessment phase to the cleanup phase."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2009/dh-talladega-0729-cnorwood-9g28v3822.htm

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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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