[CPEO-BIF] Former Gardner recycling lot, Cottonwood, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grant to test former Gardner recycling lot in Cottonwood



Jon Hutchinson

Verde Independent (AZ)
September
8, 2011

PHOENIX -- Arizona Department of Environmental Quality officials  
Wednesday announced that a $51,500 Brownfields grant has been awarded  
to the City of Cottonwood to complete an environmental evaluation of  
a former recycling collection site. The site is the former Old Town  
Cottonwood location of Gardner Recycling at 1032 N. First St. Now  
that the site is cleared, Cottonwood wants to build a parking lot,  
park and picnic area on the property.



Last October, Cottonwood purchased the property consisting of five  
small parcels, An environmental site assessment was begun, but not  
completed, before the purchase of the land. Soil samples indicated  
that contamination from heavy metals could exist in the soil under  
large junk piles that remained on the property.


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For the entire article, see
http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=43744

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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
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