[CPEO-BIF] "Cleanup of Menomonie Street event center site, " Eau Calire, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA grants wanted for cleanup of Menomonie Street event center site
Federal money sought to help with tainted soils for UW-EC project


by Andrew Dowd 
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram (WI)
November 30. 2016

The UW-Eau Claire Foundation is again seeking $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help pay costs of containing soils contaminated by more than a century of industrial activity to make way for an event and recreation center along the Chippewa River.

This will be the second attempt the foundation has made for Brownfield grants from the federal agency for the cleanup work estimated to cost nearly $800,000 at land along Menomonie Street planned for the Sonnentag Event and Recreation Complex.

Kimera Way, the foundation’s executive director, said although the project didn’t win grants earlier this year, federal officials told them they liked the proposal, and “they gave us great feedback and encouraged us to reapply.”


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For the entire article, see
http://www.leadertelegram.com/News/Daily-Updates/2016/11/30/EPA-grants-wanted-for-site-cleanup-nbsp.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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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