[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut Brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Redeveloping brownfield sites a complicated process
Remediation can take years to complete

By Bill Cummings
Connecticut Post
August 16, 2009

BRIDGEPORT -- Michael Hawie readily admits his relatives polluted the 
North Washington Avenue factory his family has owned for four generations.

...

But because of that practice, Hawie is now classified by state officials 
as an "original polluter." That means he cannot tap into millions of 
dollars in state and federal money that's available to clean up and 
redevelop old industrial sites like Hawie Manufacturing, which still 
produces wire, metal and marine devices such as gaff hooks.

"We have been here since 1907," Hawie explained. "We have some derelict 
buildings we can't afford to take down because they want a full cleanup 
and it's too expensive. We have had a number of people who wanted to 
make a yard here. But we can't get any cleanup money."

The Hawie factory is just one example of how difficult it is for cities 
in Connecticut and across the nation to redevelop brownfield sites and 
return old factories to job creating and tax-generating uses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/ci_13131857

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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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