[CPEO-BIF] "Palmetto’s [Florida] new waterfront park could begin construction by February"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Palmetto’s new waterfront park could begin construction by February

BY MARK YOUNG
Bradenton Heraldn (CL)
DECEMBER 4, 2017

PALMETTO - It’s gone through several idea changes since Palmetto’s Community Redevelopment Agency acquired 1.5 acres of pristine property along the Manatee River on Fifth Street West.

Initially proposed as a much-needed dog park, the city commission shot that idea down almost immediately when the CRA presented the proposal in 2015. The next idea was to initiate some land swaps with a nearby cannery to give them more parking spaces while elongating the park along the river. Vice Mayor Brian Williams was hesitant to proceed until a traffic study was done to document the impact to a nearby mobile home park.

CRA Director Jeff Burton said Monday that it didn’t matter because the land swap fell through. The good news, Burton noted, is that long-awaited work to begin cleaning up the brownfield site could begin as early as February. The property has long been known as the Edenfield property after the Edenfield family purchased the surplus land from CSX Railroad decades ago.

CSX Railroad used the land to store creosote railroad ties, and an environmental assessment done on the land showed “hotspot” areas of creosote and arsenic. The assessment showed that the areas of contamination were isolated to surface areas. Burton said, on average, only about 4 inches of topsoil will need to be removed, and clean fill will be brought in to clean the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article188060874.html

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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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