2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:45:12 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Liberty Cleaners site, Norfolk, Virginia
 
Norfolk housing agency to pay $9,000 in fines

By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
March 10, 2011
NORFOLK - The Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority has agreed to pay more than $9,000 in state fines to settle hazardous-waste violations at an old dry cleaners that it bought two years ago.

Liberty Cleaners, a fixture in the Berkley section of Norfolk for more than 50 years, was abandoned after it closed in 1999 and following the death of its longtime owner, Thomas James Sr.

Left unattended for years in the concrete building at 620 E. Liberty Street were dozens of drums containing toxic chemicals used in the dry-cleaning industry, including one known as "perc," which can cause cancer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/norfolk-housing-agency-pay-9000-fines


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