[CPEO-BIF] Ohio Leather Works, Girard, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Transforming a tannery

By Robert Guttersohn
Youngstown Vindicator
January 18, 2012

GIRARD - After years of failed negotiations over the contaminated  
Ohio Leather Co. property, the city began the process of obtaining  
the 27 acres through foreclosure Tuesday.

Mayor James Melfi requested the city’s legal counsel use the $75,000  
lien Girard placed on the property as leverage for the foreclosure.

The Ohio Leather Works operated along U.S. Route 422 for more than 70  
years, taking skin hides from stockyards in Chicago and making  
leather apparel.

...

Kocher said past investigators found traces of hexavalent chromium,  
the solution chemicals used on leather, on the outskirts of the  
property. Because cement rubble still covers the basement, the EPA’s  
probe could not test the solution tanks in the basement.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/18/transforming-tannery/

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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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