[CPEO-BIF] Kiley Barrel site, Somerville, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Somerville Brownfield Cleanup Gets Boost

by Fred Bever
WBUR Radio Newsroom (Boston, MA)
August 20, 2012

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Cleanup of a so-called "brownfield" in Somerville  
got a million-dollar boost on Monday. Backers say it's a key moment  
in the revitalization of the city's Union Square. And at a press  
conference Monday, Rep. Michael Capuano used the project to make a  
few political points.

The Kiley Barrel Co. cleaned thousands of oil drums in the city’s  
oldest commercial crossroads from the 1950s to 1981, leaving behind a  
toxic legacy of lead, arsenic and dioxin-containing polychlorinated  
biphenyls, or PCBs.

Federal, state and local officials gathered Monday at what is now a  
grassy acre at the corner of Prospect Street and Somerville Avenue to  
celebrate the latest government allotment for what will be a $3.5  
million cleanup project.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wbur.org/2012/08/20/somerville-brownfield-union-square

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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
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