[CPEO-BIF] Norwalk, Connecticut housing proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Residents battle plan for contaminated Norwalk site

By Magdalene Perez
Stamford Advocate (CT)
October 27, 2009


NORWALK -- A group of 40 city residents rallied Monday against the 
proposed rezoning of a contaminated industrial site on Norden Place.

If approved by city boards, the rezoning would allow developer Spinnaker 
Real Estate Partners to build a 240-unit apartment on land where federal 
officials have found toxic chemicals in groundwater and soil at levels 
deemed unsafe by state health standards. The property, formerly owned by 
Norden Systems Inc., was once used for building radar systems and 
cleaning equipment, neighbors said.

...

According to a 1999 report from the Environmental Protection Agency, 
five chemicals were known or "reasonably suspected" to contaminate 
groundwater and soil at the site, including the industrial solvent TCE.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ci_13647241?source=most_emailed

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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