[CPEO-BIF] Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Brownfields' money considered for idled Metairie concrete plant

By Richard Rainey
New Orleans Times-Picayune
July 5, 2011


The Davis Concrete plant in Metairie sits idle, as it has for years,  
given to entropy on the edges of vacant lots. Past administrations in  
Jefferson Parish saw the property becoming a park. The plant's owner,  
if he can't resurrect his business, at least wants in return what the  
property is worth.

But after a parish-hired engineer found diesel fuel in the soil along  
an edge of the land, parish officials declared the concrete plant  
contaminated. The plant's owner, Edson Davis, countered that the fuel  
came from the parish-owned vacant lots abutting his property.

...

The federal brownfield program began in 1995, spread to Louisiana  
around 1998 and took root in Jefferson Parish in 2001, said Rebecca  
Otte, brownfield coordinator with the Regional Planning Commission.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/07/ 
brownfields_money_considered_f.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
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