[CPEO-BIF] Globe Metal Finishing site, Hamden, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Funds delayed on tainted site cleanup


By Ann DeMatteo
New Haven Register (CT)
October 27, 2009



HAMDEN - A federal budget delay will postpone the start of the first 
phase of cleaning up contaminated property on Goodrich Street.

The cleanup was to begin around Nov. 1, but now won’t start until later 
in the month, according to Dale Kroop, director of economic and 
community development.

Kroop and other local, state and federal officials spoke to residents 
last week about what would be going on at the former Globe Metal 
Finishing Inc. plant at 386-400 Goodrich St. and 55 Daisy St. in New Haven.

The Hamden Economic Development Corp. has received an Environmental 
Protection Agency brownfields cleanup grant of $373,000 through the 
Regional Growth Partnership to remove underground storage tanks, metals, 
and cyanide beneath the slab and other chemicals in the soil, including 
arsenic and lead.

The EPA will first fence off the building and then drain the basement of 
contaminated water and debris.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/10/27/news/metro/b1-hagoodrich.txt

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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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