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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental testing of Cedar Lake a go
Iowa DNR paying for study with federal funds

by B.A. Morelli																													
Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA)
September 12, 2016 

CEDAR RAPIDS - An environmental study critical to transforming Cedar Lake — an old industrial body of water north of downtown — into a recreational hub has the go ahead to begin next month, Cedar Rapids officials announced Monday.

This comes nearly a year after Cedar Rapids City Council first applied for a $200,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant for a so called phase two brownfield study to test whether toxins exist in the lake sediment. The application was passed over this spring, but EPA officials encouraged Cedar Rapids to apply for funds through the similar, but non-competitive, targeted brownfield assessment program.

Cedar Rapids received word that is a go, said William Micheel, assistant city planner in Cedar Rapids, at a meeting of the Cedar Lake Study Committee on Monday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/local/brownfield-testing-of-cedar-lake-a-go-20160912

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Lenny Siegel
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