[CPEO-BIF] "Elkhart [Indiana] Habitat for Humanity still waiting to build houses on contaminated property"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Elkhart Habitat for Humanity still waiting to build houses on contaminated property

by Ben Quibble
Elkhart Truth (IN)
February 17, 2016

ELKHART - Years have gone by since Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County, Inc., offered to build homes on a contaminated industrial site located on Elkhart’s near north side, but just when the required cleanup might occur remains unknown. 

Two years ago, Habitat for Humanity paid $25,000 to tear down an old building at the former site of the Bergerson Screw machine shop that now sits empty at 1032 E. Beardsley Ave. with hopes of building four new homes for families. With its close proximity to Beardsley Elementary, grocery stores and parks, the site is ideal for Habitat for Humanity families. 

But city officials said the land and groundwater there is contaminated with harmful chemicals, which has led to the property being designated as a brownfield site — a term the Environmental Protection Agency uses to describe land which could be hazardous due to prior industrial use.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.elkharttruth.com/hometown/elkhart/2016/02/16/Elkhart-Habitat-for-Humanity-still-waiting-to-build-houses-on-contaminated-property.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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