2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:26:52 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Verona (New Jersey) High School Football Field
 
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
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