[CPEO-BIF] Cedar Lake redevelopment, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City seeks EPA study of Cedar Lake sediment
Worry of toxins has blocked redevelopment


by Rick Smith
Eastern Iowa Gazette
November 30, 2015 

CEDAR RAPIDS - New life looks more possible for the 115-acre Cedar Lake, which sits in an industrial area next to Interstate 380 just north of downtown.

On Tuesday, the City Council here is slated to agree to apply for a $200,000 brownfield grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which, if secured, will pay for a Phase II environmental site assessment of the lake to determine if any toxins are in the lake’s sediment.

Uncertainty about what might be at the bottom of the lake has worked to block the push by the advocacy group, Friends of Cedar Lake, to see the lake redeveloped. For some years, Cedar Lake has been on Iowa’s impaired waters list, but earlier this year, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources removed it from the list after successive favorable water quality tests. The tests only analyzed the water, not the lake sediment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/city-seeks-epa-study-of-cedar-lake-sediment-20151130

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