[CPEO-BIF] Riverfront Park, Spokane, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City Council names Riverfront Park a ‘brownfield’ to assist soil cleanup efforts

By Kip Hill
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
October 3, 2016

Hoping to recoup some of the unexpected costs of soil cleanup during Riverfront Park’s $64 million renovation, the City Council voted Monday night to declare the 42-year-old attraction a contaminated site.

The council voted unanimously to classify the 100-acre park a brownfield redevelopment opportunity zone, a designation created by the Washington Legislature in 2013 to spur scrubbing of the state’s most contaminated industrial sites. Riverfront Park joins portions of the Hillyard neighborhood and 237 acres of waterfront property in Bellingham as the only properties in the state to earn the designation.

City Council President Ben Stuckart said workers are going to have to dispose of the contaminated dirt churned up during construction, and the designation doesn’t imply the park is unsafe.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/oct/03/city-council-names-riverfront-park-a-brownfield-to/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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