2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Cleaning up former Tobacco Fields, Simsbury, Connecticut
 
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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