[CPEO-BIF] Toledo Coke site, Port of Toledo, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port gets $2 million to clean up industrial park

by Kelly Kaczala
Millbury Press (OH)
November 25, 2009

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority received a $2 million grant from 
the state to clean up the former industrial park at Beazer, also known 
as the former Toledo Coke site, located at the Port of Toledo.

The Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF) grant will allow the Port to 
complete the remaining environmental remediation and demolition 
activities at the site, just off Front Street.

The Port believes that the site will create several construction jobs 
and draw hundreds of new manufacturing and seaport jobs when the cleanup 
is complete.

...

The former coke production facility has heavily impacted soil, heavy 
foundations, and construction debris that needs to be removed, before it 
can be redeveloped, said Sapara.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.presspublications.com/from-the-press/3307-port-gets-2-million-to-clean-up-industrial-park


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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
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