[CPEO-BIF] "Freeport [Illinois] selects Fischer Excavating to clear Album Street corridor"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Freeport selects Fischer Excavating to clear Album Street corridor

By ShelR. Farrell
Freeport Journal-Standard (IL)
March 22. 2016

FREEPORT - City officials chose a local company to clear contaminants and a collapsed building from the Album Street corridor as part of a federal environmental grant from three years ago.

Aldermen unanimously voted to accept Fischer Excavating's low bid at Monday's City Council meeting.

In 2013, Freeport was given a $600,000 Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for three sites in the 3rd Ward, including the Album Street corridor. Leaders want the latest project to be done by this fall.

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The corridor is scheduled to become part of the Pecatonica Prairie Trail, which will be extended past its current end at the border of Stephenson and Winnebago counties. No timeframe for the extension has been established.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalstandard.com/article/20160322/NEWS/160329894

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