[CPEO-BIF] Former Super Quik Stop, Twin Falls, Idaho

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields: A Cleaner Future

One successful brownfield project offers lessons for other efforts.


BY KIMBERLEE KRUESI
MAGIC VALLEY TIMES-NEWS
OCTOBER 30, 2012

TWIN FALLS - Tucked in the corner of a cramped trailer is a gallon of  
a pink-brown liquid in a plastic container.

It sloshes and foams when Saiid Dabestani digs it out of the trailer.  
He waves it around as he spreads his arms across the empty lot the  
trailer sits on.

"This is what we pulled out of the ground, gallons of it," he said,  
sweeping his arm across the dirt-covered lot. "Look at the color.  
This is leaded gasoline."

...

There are close to 65 brownfields in Idaho. Fifteen of those,  
including the site on Washington StreetNorth, are located in the  
state's south-central region.


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For the entire article, see
http://magicvalley.com/news/local/brownfields-a-cleaner-future/ 
article_c28145da-e073-516e-b40f-d5bc8dba4d37.html?comment_form=true

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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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