[CPEO-BIF] Steel Ceilings site, Coshocton, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Port Authority continues to lobby for cleanup
Ohio Controlling Board awards grant for Steel Ceilings site

by Kathie Dickerson
Coshocton Tribune (OH)
May. 9, 2012

COSHOCTON -- Cleaning up any environmental hazards left at the former  
Steel Ceilings site on North Third Street could attract potential  
jobs to Coshocton and serve as an inducement to keep 214 jobs in the  
area, according to the Ohio Department of Development.

The Coshocton Port Authority learned this week it will receive a  
$700,000 grant.

...

The Port Authority received more than $300,000 in grants to have  
Phase I and Phase II environmental assessments performed at the site,  
which according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency records was  
used as an on-site storage location for hazardous materials beginning  
about 1930. Material stored in drums outside on a sand and gravel  
parking lot was an area of concern disclosed in 1994, when a  
preliminary assessment and visual site inspection was performed for  
the U.S. EPA. In addition, two areas of concern are where hazardous  
waste was stored in drums and had trichloroethylene contaminated soil  
removed in 1983.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20120509/NEWS01/205090302/ 
Port-Authority-continues-lobby-cleanup?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|

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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>
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