[CPEO-BIF] Sterling, Illinois riverfront ecotourism project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield to green space in Sterling
One year later, project taking shape

By PAM EGGEMEIER
Sauk Valley Media (IL)
October 19, 2015 

STERLING – It’s been nearly a year since bids were put out for work on the city’s riverfront ecotourism project, and the transformation of a blighted industrial property is becoming evident.

Project Manager Jens Jensen, owner of Jensen Ecology, recapped the progress at Monday’s council meeting. After working at a frenetic pace the past few weeks, the project is on pause.

Most of the work has been done on the east side of the Northwestern Steel & Wire Co. site, because ComEd is still doing remediation work on the west side.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saukvalley.com/2015/10/19/brownfield-to-green-space-in-sterling/alrjmi7/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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