2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:50:29 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] 'The Block,' Asheville, North Carolina
 
Environmental investigation under way on Asheville's 'The Block'

By Nanci Bompey
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
June 29, 2010



An underground storage tank may be leaking petroleum into an area of "The Block" slated for redevelopment.

Land-of-Sky Regional Council, working with Mountain Environmental Group, will spend the next few months testing the parking lot at 40 S. Market St. to find out if an underground storage tank discovered six months ago is leaking its contents into the ground.

They will determine if it needs to be removed before work on a new mixed-use building in the historically African-American downtown business district can continue.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100629/NEWS/306290025

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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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