[CPEO-BIF] Colorado Springs "solar garden"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar garden to give new life to old landfill

ANDREW WINEKE
Colorado Springs Gazette
December 20, 2011

An old landfill is more of a liability than an asset: A big, flat  
open space that you can't build on, that belches methane and that  
threatens groundwater if it’s not maintained.

That's the situation Colorado Brownfields Foundation, a nonprofit  
that works to remove environmental obstacles to community  
development, struggled with at the former Templeton Gap Landfill near  
Woodmen Road and Powers Boulevard, just south of St. Francis Medical  
Center. The 40-acre landfill opened in the 1970s, shut down in the  
late 1980s and has sat there ever since - a privately owned mesa of  
dirt and grass with a great view of Pikes Peak and little to no  
economic value.

The city of Colorado Springs has gradually encircled the site, but  
never annexed the landfill, since there was no reason to. It remains  
owned by a group of private partners from its days as an operating  
business, although it's managed by Colorado Brownfields.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.com/articles/old-130490-landfill-big.html

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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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