2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:30:37 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Curtis Specialty Papers, Milford-Alexandria, Pennsylvania
 
Superfund cleanup of Curtis Specialty Papers and adjacent landfill spurs interest in residents


By John sievers
Lehigh Valley Express-Times (PA)
January 30, 2011

MILFORD - Rob Castagna has high hopes for the old Curtis Specialty Papers Inc. mill -- perhaps an industrial or residential use to breathe life back into the mothballed site.

"When you look at what's sitting there now, it looks like Chernobyl," said Castagna, co-owner of Chestnut Hill Bed and Breakfast in Milford.

The shuttered, contaminated mill property "could be one of the nicest pieces of property along the Delaware River," Castagna said last week.

The 404 Frenchtown Road site straddles the Milford-Alexandria Township border. It and the adjacent Crown Vantage Landfill have been the focus since fall 2009 of a federally coordinated cleanup under the National Priorities List, or Superfund program.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/hunterdon-county/index.ssf?/base/news-0/129636364791660.xml&coll=3

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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