[CPEO-BIF] Bridgeport, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfields Forever
Bridgeport has loads of contaminated industrial sites that defy 
development, but city officials are diligently chipping away at the 
challenge of making them useful again

By Daniel D'Ambrosio
Fairfield County Weekly (CT)
August 27, 2009

On a recent muggy summer afternoon, I took a tour of Bridgeport 
brownfields with Ed Lavernoich, the city's deputy director of planning 
and economic development. Before we left, we pored over a city map, 
plotting the former industrial sites that make up the city's brownfields 
as Lavernoich grew more and more animated about the challenge of dealing 
with the contamination left behind.

...

"Nobody has more far-reaching or greater magnitude of problems with 
brownfields than Bridgeport," says Lavernoich. "It's kind of amazing how 
much the problem of urban brownfields impacts so many aspects of 
American life, everything from poverty and public health to the 
destruction of natural habitat because people wanted to avoid these 
problems in the inner city."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14287

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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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