[CPEO-BIF] Verona (New Jersey) High School Football Field

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfields Funds For VHS Field?

Virginia Citrano
My VeronaNJ (NJ)
November 14, 2012 6:00 am

A brownfield site, in the classic definition, is an abandoned  
commercial or industrial site in need of redevelopment but often  
contaminated by its past use. That might not seem to apply to Thomas  
J. Sellitto Field, the pastoral upper football field at Verona High  
School.

But when the field was built in the late 1970s, it was created with  
fill from an industrial site, reportedly a former Edison Laboratory  
building. That has been the field's undoing–but maybe also its  
salvation.

Glenn Elliott, who sits on the Board of Education's Buildings and  
Grounds Committee, said at Tuesday night's meeting that the committee  
has discussed the possibility of seeking federal funds reserved for  
brownfields cleanups to remediate the problems on the field.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.myveronanj.com/2012/11/14/brownfields-funds-for-vhs-field/

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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
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