[CPEO-BIF] "In Attleboro [Massachusetts], brownfield cleanup helps spark development"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Attleboro, brownfield cleanup helps spark development

BY GEORGE W. RHODES
ATTLEBORO  SUN CHRONICLE (MA)
August 26, 2012

ATTLEBORO - While the cleanup of thousands of brownfields throughout  
the state has been long delayed by lagging funds, Attleboro seems to  
have done well in getting the money it needs for parcels that are  
badly polluted or are key to economic development.

At least $18.4 million has been poured into the city to scrub  
contaminated land over the past seven years.

More than half of that - $10 million - has gone into the former  
Walton & Lonsbury property, which officials from the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency are hoping to designate a Superfund  
Site.
Such a designation would allow millions more to be spent to scour the  
property that's leaking poison chemicals into the city's North Avenue  
neighborhood.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/in-attleboro- 
brownfield-cleanup-helps-spark-development/article_35b5246f-f51d-5096- 
a0b0-3b8c525ff5a9.html

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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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