2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:05:11 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Queen Anne Square, Newport, Rhode Island
 
City Identifies Toxics Beneath Queen Anne Square


By KYLE HENCE
ecoRI News ()RI)
February 26, 2012

NEWPORT - The city has discovered environmental contaminants in soil from Queen Anne Square at levels that prompted a recent meeting at the state Department of Environmental Management (DEM).

Scott Wheeler, of the city's Parks Department; Pieter Roos, of the Newport Restoration Foundation; Jeff Moniz of construction contractor Farrar & Associates Inc.; and Rick Mandile and Bruce Clark of Sage Environmental all joined DEM senior waste management engineer Joe Martella for the meeting.

On Feb. 24, the city submitted a "Hazardous Material Release Form" required whenever detected contaminants at any site within state jurisdiction exceed limits delineated by DEM regulations.

ecoRI News first reported on environmental concerns at Queen Anne Square in December and again in January, when soil sampling began - the first step in the city-approved construction project to re- fashion the downtown public park.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/front-page-journal/2012/2/26/city-identifies- toxics-beneath-queen-anne-square.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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