[CPEO-BIF] Aspen Place at The Sawmill, Flagstaff, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contamination stalls lot sales



JOE FERGUSON
Arizona Sun
November 5, 2010


Another wrinkle has emerged in the failed Aspen Place at The Sawmill 
project off Lone Tree Road.

The city of Flagstaff has postponed indefinitely the sale of roughly 20 
acres containing hundreds of residential building lots after preliminary 
tests found chemical contamination that previous owners supposedly had 
cleaned up.

The delay essentially gives the city little recourse but to use taxpayer 
funds to pay a $475,000 bond assessment due in December.

Soil samples on each of the nine city-owned parcels known as Sawmill 
South showed dangerous volatile organic compounds throughout the site, 
which was the former Stone Forest Lumber Mill before being converted to 
a combination retail and housing development.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/article_296767f9-8f24-5ab2-846c-0cb025603238.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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