[CPEO-BIF] Rucks Park, North Miami, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Miami seeks state aid to clean up park site

By Lance Dixon
Miami Herald (FL)
September 29, 2014

The North Miami City Council voted last week to give special  
designation to an undeveloped park site as the city plans to develop  
it for recreational and potential housing use.

The council voted Sept. 23 to designate the Rucks Park site, at  
Northeast Fifth Avenue between 137th and 139th streets, as a  
brownfield area, which would give the city potential financial  
benefits as it cleans up the park’s soil for future use. The city’s  
planning commission initially approved the plan Sept. 2, but the  
discussion started in January as the city weighed out the merits of  
the brownfield tag.

...

In Rucks Park's case the contamination includes arsenic, pesticides  
and ammonia, according to the county’s Regulatory and Economic  
Resources Department. The land was home to a sewage treatment plant  
for about 20 years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/north- 
miami/article2301246.html

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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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