[CPEO-BIF] Waukegan, Illinois lakefront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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