[CPEO-BIF] Beaton & Corbin Parcel, Southington, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Southington Gets Grant To Assess Site For Cleanup

Town Hopes It's A Step Toward Redeveloping Beaton & Corbin Parcel

By KEN BYRON
Hartford Courant (CT)
November 9, 2010

SOUTHINGTON - The town is hoping that a $100,000 federal grant could 
help encourage the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Beaton & Corbin 
Manufactoring Co. site.

The grant will pay for an environmental assessment of the site on North 
Main Street. The Beaton & Corbin factory used metal plating for its 
products, and contaminants from the process have polluted the site. The 
company closed in 1989 and the factory building burned down in 2003.

Town officials are eager to get the vacant parcel redeveloped because of 
its busy location and proximity to downtown. But an environmental 
assessment is needed. Louis Perillo, the town's economic development 
coordinator, said previoius environmental assessments, performed before 
the fire, are out of date.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ctnow.com/news/connecticut/hartford/hc-southington-brownfield-1110-20101109,0,2800632.story

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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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