[CPEO-BIF] "Connecticut puts $62.6 million into cleaning up brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Connecticut puts $62.6 million into cleaning up brownfields

By Ed Stannard
New Haven Register
August 26, 2014

The state has invested more than $62 million in cleaning up  
brownfield sites across the state in the last two years, almost six  
times the amount spent in the previous seven, according to a memo  
released by the Malloy administration on Tuesday.

Working with private developers, a total of 37 sites in 27 cities and  
towns, including New Haven, Derby, Middletown and Clinton, have been  
remediated and turned into housing, a brewery and other uses, the  
administration said.

Most of the sites represent "the scars of the Industrial Revolution,  
when you had big manufacturing operations right in the middle of  
downtowns," said Tim Sullivan, who oversees brownfield development in  
the state Department of Economic and Community Development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nhregister.com/government-and-politics/20140826/ 
connecticut-puts-626-million-into-cleaning-up-brownfields

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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
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