[CPEO-BIF] Newark Processing Co. site, Newark, Ohio goes solar

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Solar power station coming to Newark brownfield

By Seth Roy
Newark Advocate (OH)
July 17, 2011

NEWARK -- An abandoned warehouse site that sits behind a child care  
center and the former Excel Academy Activities Center east of Dayton  
Road is set to become the home of a solar energy field.

The former Newark Processing Co. site has been empty since the  
company's closure in 1997. Portions of concrete walls still stand on  
the 66-acre site, surrounded by heaping black mounds of aluminum dross.

By the end of the year, the site should be remediated and cleared of  
current structures, creating the foundation for 6,000 solar panels  
that would generate energy for the city of Newark's nearby wastewater  
plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20110717/NEWS01/107170301/Solar- 
power-station-coming-Newark-brownfield

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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