[CPEO-BIF] Greenwood Mills, Greenwood, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City Approves Moving Forward with Mill Clean-up Strategy

Greenwood Today (SC)
October 19, 2010

For quite some time questions have loomed over the old Greenwood Mills 
site No. 5 located on Kitson Street in Greenwood. However, Monday night 
the City of Greenwood took the first steps to initiate a cleanup of the 
old mill which is now primarily reduced to rubble.

In a unanimous vote, Greenwood City Council voted Monday night to allow 
the City of Greenwood to enter into a non-responsible party voluntary 
clean-up contract with South Carolina Department of Health and 
Environmental Control; optimistically the beginning of the end after a 
long and tumultuous history for the old Greenwood Mills property.

Greenwood Mills sold the property in 1995 to Facemate who eventually 
declared bankruptcy in 2003. Greenwood Salvage and Demolition then 
purchased the property and owned it for a short time before the property 
entered into foreclosure. In 2007, Timberworks LLC purchased the 
property from Greenwood Salvage and Demotion.

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For the entire article, see
http://gwdtoday.com/city-approves-moving-forward-with-mill-cleanup-strategy-p22185-1.htm

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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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