[CPEO-BIF] Mississippi: Ridgeland former concrete plant site, Vicksburg Chemical, etc.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup project to reclaim Ridgeland property
City Center planned at former concrete plant


 by Jimmie E. Gates
Jackson Clarion Ledger (MS)
September 20, 2013

The state is working with federal officials to clean up large  
contaminated sites in the state with the long-term goal of reclaiming  
the property for use, but fear of liability keeps most people away  
from buying or reclaiming such property for redevelopment, officials  
say.

Mississippi has 12 sites on the Environmental Protection Agency’s  
Superfund list. The Superfund program provides for the cleanup of  
large contaminated and-or abandoned hazardous waste sites that are a  
top health threat. Nationally, there are more than 1,600 such sites.

Mississippi also has thousands of Brownfield sites, which are  
abandoned or underused commercial or industrial areas where  
redevelopment is hindered by possible environmental contamination. A  
site could be as small as a gas station or dry cleaners or as large  
as an industrial plant. Some sites have or had abandoned underground  
gas storage tanks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130921/NEWS01/309210009/ 
Cleanup-project-reclaim-Ridgeland-property

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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>
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