From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:26:10 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Former Vermilion Iron Works property, Hoopestown, Illinois |
Brownfield program targets sites for development by Tracy Moss Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette (IL) November 4, 2012HOOPESTON - On a recent inspection of a former iron works facility in Hoopeston, Vermilion County Health Department inspector Adrianna Krzywicka spotted vapor spewing from a barrel. Krzywicka first saw it through the lens of her camera while photographing the interior of a large, vacant building on the ironworks property, which is not secure and sits next to two community baseball diamonds. Krzywicka, an environmental health practitioner for the Vermilion County Health Department, was participating in a late-October environmental inspection of the former New Vermilion Ironworks facility in north central Hoopeston along with Douglas Toole, director of environmental health at the county health department, and environmental engineers with Foth consulting in Champaign. The walk- through was suspended, and Toole said it will be on hold until Illinois EPA officials do some testing this month to determine what's in the various barrels on the property. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.news-gazette.com/news/environment/2012-11-04/brownfield- program-targets-sites-development.html -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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