[CPEO-BIF] Taylor, Smith and Taylor pottery plant, Chester, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chester Brownfield Cleanup Could Begin Next Year

State Journal (WV)
October 5, 2011

The Taylor, Smith and Taylor pottery plant closed in 1981. Now the  
site is being cleaned up for reuse.

If all goes as planned, the new owners of a brownfield site in  
Chester could begin clearing the site in 2012.

"That's best case scenario," said Pat Ford, executive director of the  
Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle. "I would say  
worst-case scenario, depending on the timeliness of us filing our  
grant applications with U.S. EPA and if we're fortunate to get any  
money, we might be looking at two-and-a-half to three years. But  
there's a great chance that the (contaminants) could start going off  
site within 12-18 months."

The BDC purchased the former Taylor, Smith and Taylor plant in July  
for $125,000. A working pottery plant for 80 years, it closed in 1981.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=109435

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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