[CPEO-BIF] Rock Island, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

5 Rock Island brownfield projects lead to redevelopment in 3-block area


Dustin Lemmon
Quad-City Times (IL)
October 4, 2010

Once workers broke through a foot of concrete in the former Illinois Oil 
Products building in Rock Island on Monday, they began drilling to see 
if the soil or groundwater has any contamination.

Portions of the building at the corner of 4th Avenue and 24th Street 
will be torn down to make room for new development, while the rest will 
become Jackson Square, a 30-unit apartment complex.

It is one of five brownfield projects the city has conducted over the 
past decade in a three-block area near Arsenal Island. The city received 
more than $1.5 million through the state and federal environmental 
protection agencies for the investigation and clean up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_954ca4ec-d02b-11df-8780-001cc4c03286.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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