[CPEO-BIF] NewPorte Landing softball complex, La Porte, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City seeks grants for NewPorte cleanup

By Matt Fritz

La Porte Herald Argus (IN)
December 21, 2011

The city of La Porte has filed two grant applications to start the  
cleanup process at the NewPorte Landing brownfield site.

And with its plans to potentially add a softball complex there in the  
future, some area officials are hoping NewPorte can attract more  
tourists as well as developers.

Mayor Kathy Chroback announced the grant applications at the NewPorte  
Landing Community Advisory Committee on Tuesday, explaining that one  
was for the environment assessments at the brownfield sites, to  
determine any remediation and cleanup necessary, while the other was  
for actual cleanup work on the Allis-Chalmers site. They were both  
for $200,000.

The city has been in discussions about possibly adding a six field  
softball complex on the property at Truesdale Avenue and Marquette  
Street once the site has been remediated.


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For the entire article, see
http://heraldargus.com/articles/2011/12/22/news/local/ 
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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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