2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:07:43 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Textron site, Wilmington, Ohio
 
Site set for demo, cleanup

GARY HUFFENBERGER

Wilmington News-Journal (OH)
March 23, 2011

An official groundbreaking was held Wednesday for the upcoming demolition and remediation activities at the former Textron site on Nelson Avenue in Wilmington. The Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF) project in the city was called by Wilmington Mayor David Raizk as "the poster child" for CORF's statewide program in brownfield revitalization. Brownfield revitalization involves cleaning up brownfields to encourage redevelopment and to revitalize communities.

...

In July 2010, the state awarded the city of Wilmington a $1.85 million brownfield revitalization grant, enabling the acquisition and cleanup of the vacated Kautex Textron property. Kautex Textron shut down operations in summer 2009.

Some of the existing structures on the site will be demolished, and any contaminated soil or groundwater at the former industrial site will be cleaned up.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wnewsj.com/main.asp? SectionID=49&SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=188673


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