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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lot sales ready to resume

JOE FERGUSON
Arizona Daily Sun
January 9, 2011

After a fourth round of tests, Flagstaff officials now believe there are 
no significant levels of benzene and tetrachloroethylene in the soil of 
a midtown housing development.

City Manager Kevin Burke said the city will soon resume plans to sell at 
auction the 20-acre property of which it had taken ownership last year.

Recently released soil vapor reports related to the southern half of the 
Aspen Place at The Sawmill found only minor contamination on the site -- 
nowhere near the levels that forced the city to suspend plans to sell 
the property several months ago.

The resumption of the auction is good news for taxpayers -- until the 
property is sold, the city of Flagstaff is responsible for roughly $8 
million in bond payments.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/article_7dcc8621-5d17-54fa-8b20-b30a4f9f8841.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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