2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 12:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Kingsport Foundry site, Kingsport, Tennessee
 
Second study finds contamination at old Kingsport Foundry site

By Sharon Hayes
Kingsport Times News (TN)
November 1, 2011

KINGSPORT — The city is looking to have the old Kingsport Foundry property designated as a brownfield site after a recent environmental study showed contamination in the soil.

Members of the Kingsport Economic Development Board were told Tuesday that Brock Services, which had planned to acquire a portion of the old foundry site on Main Street, has opted against that idea after a Phase II environmental report revealed contamination problems at the site.

The Kingsport Foundry operated there from 1927 until 2003, when it closed after failing to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9037756/second-study-finds- contamination-at-old-kingsport-foundry-site

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