[CPEO-BIF] Gong Bell site, East Hampton, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Former East Hampton Factory Site Cleaned Up, Landscaped

By ERIK HESSELBERG
Hartford Courant (CT)
September 29, 2012

EAST HAMPTON - In the 1930s and 40s, the Gong Bell factory along  
Pocotopaug Creek was Santa's workshop, churning out thousands of  
whimsical toys, like brightly colored circus clowns tapping  
mechanical drums and little wooden teddy bears pushing chiming  
wheelbarrows.

But the production of these enchanting playthings left an ominous  
legacy. Lead-based paint was used to decorate many of the toys,  
leaving tainted soil where bell factory buildings once stood.

"The Gong Bell factory property at 103 Main St. is where the paint  
shop stood, and that's where we found heavy metals like lead," said  
Scott Bristol, an environmental engineer and the former chairman of  
the town's brownfield redevelopment agency. "It was a significant  
risk to the public."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-east-hampton- 
bell-0928-20120927,0,7896422.story

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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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