[CPEO-BIF] Cleaning up former Tobacco Fields, Simsbury, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Environmental Cleanup Begins On Former Tobacco Fields

BY MELISSA PIONZIO
Hartford Courant (CT)
September 22, 2011

SIMSBURY - Contamination on 200 acres in the town's Meadowood section  
that was once used to grow tobacco is being cleaned up this week in  
preparation for a proposed 296-home housing development.

Residents living near the property, bounded by Hoskins Road on the  
south, County Road on the north and Clifton Road on the west, were  
told about the work in a letter from the planning department earlier  
this week. The work began Sept. 13.

Zoning Enforcement Officer Howard Beach said the work will be done in  
two phases.

"Right now they are just moving soil within the site. Nothing is  
leaving the site," Beach said. "What is known as the Hoskins 7 area  
up there had some higher concentrations of pesticides and that area  
has to be excavated 2 feet and removed off-site to a certified  
landfill."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/community/simsbury/hc-simsbury- 
remediation-0922-20110922,0,7241067.story

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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>
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