[CPEO-BIF] "Danbury [Connecticut] brownfields hinder development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Danbury brownfields hinder development

by Hugh Bailey
Danbury News Times (CT)
November 23, 2014

DANBURY -- On Rose Hill Avenue on the banks of the Still River is the  
brownfield John F. Kennedy built.

The former Mallory Hat Co., torn down in 1998, is one of hundreds of  
contaminated sites around the state, and among hundreds of thousands  
nationwide, held back from development by its industrial past. Known  
as brownfields, these properties are judged either too expensive to  
clean up or not worth the risk to potential developers.

The state's official list of contaminated or potentially contaminated  
sites in Connecticut includes more than 300 locations in Danbury.  
They include everything from residences with leaking underground  
storage tanks to sprawling old factories. Only a handful have been  
fully assessed or cleaned up.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Danbury-brownfields-hinder- 
development-5909841.php

See also http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Remaking-our- 
industrial-past-5909830.php

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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