[CPEO-BIF] Community Maritime Park, Pensacola, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pensacola's Community Maritime Park receives $200K EPA grant

by Derek Cosson
Pulse Gulf Coast (FL)
May 31, 2017

The City of Pensacola will receive a $200,000 brownfields cleanup grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to remove creosote pilings at the waterfront Community Maritime Park.

Pensacola was one of five communities in Florida to receive a grant under the brownfields program and one of 172 communities nationwide.

Before being purchased by the city in 2000, the park property historically served as a railroad freight terminal, with a commercial pier extending from the bulkhead. Erected in the early 1900s, the Frisco Docks were completely destroyed in a 1966 fire, but more than 500 creosote-treated pilings remain submerged underwater. Contamination from polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, is also present.

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For the entire article, see
http://pulsegulfcoast.com/2017/05/pensacolas-community-maritime-park-receives-200k-epa-grant

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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