[CPEO-BIF] "Redeveloping underground storage tank sites through area-wide planning"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

From Vacancy to Vibrancy: A guide to redeveloping underground  
storage tank sites through area-wide planning

Smart Growth America
March 14, 2012


A new guide for town, city and county leaders outlines a new tool  
they can use to build the financial and political support needed to  
reclaim and redevelop the thousands of abandoned gas stations, auto  
body shops, and industrial facilities nationwide.

From Vacancy to Vibrancy focuses on underground storage tank (UST)  
sites – properties with buried or partially buried tanks that have  
been used to store petroleum or other hazardous substances. When gas  
stations, auto body shops, industrial facilities or other types of  
development close down, these tanks are often left behind. As they  
age, the tanks are prone to leakage and can contaminate both soil and  
groundwater, posing a serious environmental threat. The new guide  
takes aim at one of the primary reasons these types of properties  
remain vacant for so long: many officials just don’t know what to do  
with them.

...

For the entire release and a link to the full report, go to
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/2012/03/14/from-vacancy-to-vibrancy- 
a-guide-to-redeveloping-underground-storage-tank-sites-through-area- 
wide-planning/

You may need to cut and paste the link.
Or simply go to http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org and click on the link.

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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