2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:26:20 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Waukegan, Illinois lakefront
 
Waukegan lakefront 'shovel ready' for cleanup
EPA discusses dredging, bioremediation plans
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By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN
Waukegan News Sun (IL)
December 19, 2009

WAUKEGAN -- The city's toxic lakefront is getting closer to being repaired to make way for redevelopment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said progress is being made on addressing the last of the problems at the lakefront Superfund site. That includes Waukegan Harbor, the former gas and coke plant and Outboard Marine Corp. Plant No. 2.

...

Demolition of the final 600,000 square feet of OMC Plant No. 2 will cost about $21 million, funded by a federal economic stimulus grant. PCBs, trichloroethylene (TCE) and asbestos must be removed before most of that building can be demolished by Tecnica Environmental Services and Brandenburg Industrial Services Co., both minority-owned businesses from Chicago.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/1947766,5_1_WA19_HARBOR_S1-091219.article

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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