[CPEO-BIF] Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Board wants Riverfront Park designated a brownfield to help with cleanup costs

By Kip Hill
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
September 6, 2016

In order to clean up soil contaminated from years of railroad traffic and industrial waste, the city will consider naming Riverfront Park a brownfield site as it undergoes a massive, multiyear redesign.

The city hopes to receive at least $500,000 through a relatively new state program to clean up the pollution, uncovered in the early stages of work.

If its application is successful, the cleanup money wouldn’t have to come out of a $64.3 million bond measure approved by voters in 2014. That would leave more to go toward planned amenities, including a playground on the north bank of the Spokane River, which have already been revised because of unforeseen costs to repair the park’s bridges.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/06/board-wants-riverfront-park-designated-a-brownfiel/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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