Re: [CPEO-BIF] Research Question

Larry,

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection provides an excellent annual report on its Brownfields program. The annual report includes data on the number of sites that have entered and completed cleanup using the state’s voluntary Brownfield program. Copies of the latest report and previous annual reports are available at http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/brownfields/pages/annual.htm.

I am not aware of any single report that captures this information for all fifty states. Charlie Bartsch may have generated a report when he was at the Northeast – Midwest Institute (NWI), however. Evans Paull is now leading the brownfields initiative at NWI and is an excellent resource to contact.

Roger

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From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Larry Schnapf
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 9:52 AM
To: brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Research Question

Is anyone aware of any studies or reports that review the number of sites being cleaned up under state voluntary or brownfield cleanup programs? Alternatively, is anyone aware what states post this information on their websites?

EPA does not track total cleanups by states just cleanups by brownfield grantees. It seems to me that there are enormous data gaps that make evaluation of the effectiveness state brownfield/state clean programs very difficult.

Larry

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From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
To: Brownfields Internet Forum <brownfields@lists.cpeo.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 8:05 am
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Northampton Community College (PA) "not threatened" by plume

Study: Toxic plume harmless to Northampton Community College

By Dan Berrett
Pocono Record (PA)
March 1, 2010

A toxic plume underneath a former landfill lies less than a mile from the new campus of Northampton Community College, but it poses no evident threat to future students and staff, according to the college, an environmental study and a review of federal agency records.

"From everything we did before we bought the land for the campus, nothing points to our site ever having contaminated water under it," said Mark Culp, director of facilities and campus safety for NCC.

Concerns about the plume were stoked in a recent letter to the editor in the Pocono Record, which alleged that the plume had migrated under the new NCC site, and that the college had not done proper environmental testing before buying it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/NEWS/3010317

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