[CPEO-BIF] Harbor Point, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environment agencies delay Harbor Point work Regulators call for new  
air tests, reject environmental safeguards

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
November 1, 2013

Plans to build offices and condominiums at Harbor Point hit a new  
snag Friday as federal and state regulators rejected the developer's  
plans for protecting the public from toxic contamination in the  
ground during construction at the former factory site.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Maryland Department of the  
Environment called for many minor revisions to the Beatty Development  
Group's plan, which an EPA spokeswoman characterized as largely  
routine, with "no showstoppers."

But regulators also ordered more air sampling to correct what they  
said were flaws in earlier monitoring. The tests found what may have  
been "artificially high" readings of cancer-causing hexavalent  
chromium in the air at the 27-acre site and elsewhere downtown,  
officials said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-gr-harbor-point- 
denial-20131101,0,7879351.story#ixzz2jh1MEw7N

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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