[CPEO-BIF] Davenport, Iowa automobile graveyard

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Davenport to cap west end brownfield

Tory Brecht
Quad City Times
February 23, 2010

A 12-acre automobile graveyard, littered with contaminated "auto fluff" 
on Davenport's industrial west end, soon could be capped and converted 
to green space.

The city acquired the former Zenith Corp. site in 2005 after the company 
donated the brownfield area that had been used as an unregulated dump 
since the 1970s. The site is located just to the north of West River 
Drive about a half-mile west of the Credit Island Park entrance.

Brownfield donations typically offer tax breaks and help property owners 
avoid expensive fines and cleanup.

Auto "fluff" is what remains after cars are crushed and salvaged for 
useable parts, said Cindy Quast, a brownfields department manager for 
Stanley Consultants of Muscatine, Iowa, which is assisting the city on 
the site cleanup project. This includes ground-up batteries, car seats, 
dashboards and other debris that often contain heavy metals and organic 
contaminants.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_472a36e8-203c-11df-a7b5-001cc4c002e0.html

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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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