[CPEO-BIF] "No contamination found at [Martinsville, Virginia's] brownfield sites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No contamination found at city's brownfield sites

By Mickey Powell
Martinsville Bulletin (VA)
January 25, 2018


MARTINSVILLE – No major ground contamination so far has been discovered at five sites that city officials are targeting for redevelopment, Martinsville City Council learned Tuesday night.

“We’re very fortunate” for that, said Councilwoman Kathy Lawson.

But the process of evaluating the properties is far from over.

In 2016, the city obtained $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess “brownfields” – abandoned or underused industrial and commercial sites such as factories, warehouses, gas stations and other places that may have once used chemicals hazardous to the environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/news/no-contamination-found-at-city-s-brownfield-sites/article_fb38da05-f1b1-5a47-b8fa-2136dd7a6521.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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