2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 22:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ohio "Communities home in on brownfield revitalization"
 
Communities home in on brownfield revitalization

by Hannah Sparling
Coshocton Tribune (OH)
September 1, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE - Although West Lafayette has protections in place, a carcinogenic agent that has been making its way toward the village aquifer is still a concern.

The substance - trichloroethene, or TCE for short - is leftover from the old Penn-Michigan plant.

Statewide, officials are homing in on cleaning up contaminated former industrial sites such as the Penn-Michigan plant. The sites are a concern because of the environmental problems they can leave behind long after the doors are closed.

The sites are often referred to as brownfields, and there are more than 250 in the state, according to a database maintained by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. That list is not comprehensive, however. because there’s no requirement for officials to report to the EPA if they believe their site might be a brownfield.

The Penn-Michigan plant, for example, is not in that particular database.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20130831/NEWS01/308310034

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20130831/NEWS01/308310034

--

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

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