[CPEO-BIF] Norden Systems site housing, Norwalk, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group seeks $15K to appeal project at ex-Norden site

By TOM EVANS
Norwalk News - The Hour (CT)
November 30, 2009


Residents concerned about a housing development planned at the former 
Norden Systems, Inc., property are seeking to raise $15,000 by Friday to 
mount an appeal to the project.

A meeting with the "No To Rezone" residents' organization, and its 
attorney, will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 95 New Canaan Ave., a 
stand-alone building across the street from the Broad River Fire Department.

The appeal would be against the city's Zoning Commission, which 
unanimously approved both a zone change to allow residential use of land 
zoned for Restricted Industrial, and the application for construction of 
the 240-unit rental housing project, at its Nov. 18 meeting.

...

"The site contains TCE above the safety levels determined by the 
(Environmental Protection Agency)," Giordano said. "TCE is a 
cancer-causing, DNA-changing chemical used to clean equipment when it 
was considered a Defense Department site for United Technologies. 
Chemical plumes have broken through the bedrock at least 110 feet in 
depth. TCE has contaminated drinking wells as far as a quarter-mile away 
in the past."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehour.com/story/478761

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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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