[CPEO-BIF] Kingsport Foundry site, Kingsport, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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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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