[CPEO-BIF] Shepherdstown Public Library, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plans for 'green' library on brownfield shared

By RICHARD F. BELISLE
Hagerstown Herald Mail (MD)
June 6, 2010

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - Calling it an important community cornerstone, 
Mayor Jim Auxer on Saturday pledged the weight of the town behind a plan 
to build a new Shepherdstown Public Library on a 4.5-acre tract that was 
once the town dump.

"The corporation is behind this," Auxer told an audience of about 50 
people in Shepherd University's Byrd Center for Legislative Studies at a 
public meeting to explain the library's plan to build a "green" library 
on what is now a brownfield.

...

The dump, off Cherry Lane behind Elmwood Cemetery, opened in 1954 and 
closed in 1969. The site was assessed in 2001 by the EPA.

One study showed that the layer of refuse dumped on the site over the 
years ranged from 1 foot to 13 feet deep.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=246767&format=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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