From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:18:21 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Goodman Oil property, Boise, Idaho |
Building Boise West The promise of environmental cleanup for near-downtown Nathaniel Hoffman Boise State University Blue Review (ID) September 18, 2013In an obtuse triangle at the far western corner of downtown Boise, hemmed in by freeway and river and surrounded by cyclone fencing, sits a former petroleum storage yard. From the 1920s through about 2009, it was the Northwest base of operations for Goodman Oil Company, which owned gas stations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found 35 chronic underground storage tank violations on Goodman's properties and issued more than $736,000 in fines against the company - the largest tank fine ever issued in the region. Until this summer, the Goodman Oil Property along West Fairview in Boise was rundown and abandoned, thought to be highly polluted and a general thorn in the side of city officials intent on crafting a recreation and technology corridor just west of downtown. Today, the Goodman property is scraped clean, under new, local ownership and deeded with a certificate from the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality promising not to sue and providing protection to any lenders who may acquire the property in the future. ... For the entire article, see http://thebluereview.org/building-boise-west/ -- 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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