[CPEO-BIF] "Environmental issues still haunt Vista property, " Columbia, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental issues still haunt Vista property


By Jack Kenzie
WIS TV-10 News (columbia, SC)
July 24, 2017

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A prime chunk of property in Columbia’s Vista remains undeveloped years after it served as a bus maintenance shop and more than 60 years after it was used to generate fuel for gas lights.
 
Environmental questions linger over the six acre site on Huger Street near the State Museum.
 
The property belongs to SCE&G, which spent at least $7 million dollars to remove contaminated soil more than seven years ago.
 
A development company is considering the site for construction of more than 170 apartments along with a retail and grocery store complex.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.wistv.com/story/35959916/environmental-issues-still-haunt-vista-property

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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