[CPEO-BIF] Brownfields in "Paradise": Kekaha's Legacy of Industrial Agriculture

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

After 100 years of operations, the Kekaha Sugar Mill has for a decade stood as a contaminated blight in the heart of the southwestern Kaua'i community of Kekaha. Residents are questioning plans to conduct a "remediation," near a Native Hawai'ian charter school, that calls for no excavation or treatment of the arsenic and dioxins in the soil. They are organizing to promote cleanup of the area to residential standards, listing of the mill complex on the "Superfund" National Priorities List, and rezoning to promote neighborhood-compatible reuses.

 

For the entire 9-page, 6.6 MB pdf, go to

http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/KekahaLegacy.pdf

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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>

http://www.cpeo.org

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