[CPEO-BIF] Proposed Urban Health Plan garage, Bronx, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Urban Health Plan Latest Brownfield Cleanup Site

By Bill Weisbrod

Bronx Times (NY)
March 3, 2011


Contaminated vacant land once occupied by a dry cleaner stalling  
Urban Health Planâs desire to construct a parking garage.

Urban Health Plan, a New York-based health provider for underserved  
communities, wants to build a multi-story parking garage at 1095  
Southern Boulevard, on the same block as its current Bronx headquarters.

After performing an environmental analysis, Urban Health discovered  
that the site had subsurface soil and groundwater contamination.

In December 2010, they applied to the New York State Department of  
Environmental Conservation to make the site a part of the Brownfield  
Cleanup Program, and Urban Health Plan will now work with the DEC and  
a private contractor to make sure the property is safe for development


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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/03/03/bronx/bronxtimes- 
yn_bronx_front_page-9-urbanhealth.txt

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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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