[CPEO-BIF] LTV coke works site, Hazelwood (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former LTV coke works property in Hazelwood taking a step up
Fill to raise land in preparation for building

By Diana Nelson Jones
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
December 25, 2011

Pittsburgh's last brownfield may yet rise as new development from the  
ashes of its past but first it will rise, literally, by 6 to 8 feet.

At the former LTV coke works in Hazelwood, truckloads of fill have  
been collecting over the past six years toward a goal of one million  
cubic yards to elevate new development above the flood plain. This  
layer also will allow for the burial of utility lines and other  
infrastructure without the cost of digging out old foundations.

A collaboration between Almono LLC -- a consortium of four  
foundations that bought the site in 2002 -- its site manager RIDC  
(Regional Industrial Development Corp.) and numerous large-scale  
developers has saved everyone huge costs, said Don Smith, president  
of RIDC.

"We have close to 800,000 cubic yards of fill from the chunnel and  
every major development project in the area," he said. "It might have  
been an $8 million to $12 million cost for us, but it was donated.  
It's a win-win for everybody, because the fill would otherwise have  
to have been disposed of at a cost" to developers.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11359/1198976-53.stm

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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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