[CPEO-BIF] Former Limestone building, Rock Falls, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public hearing for brownfields grant Tuesday


By PAM EGGEMEIER 
SaukValley.com (WI)
January 13, 2019

ROCK FALLS – Tuesday's City Council meeting will begin with a public hearing and wrap up with a vote on the mayor's nominee to fill a vacant aldermanic seat in the 1st Ward.

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The estimated cost of the cleanup is $300,000, which would be covered with the grant and the 20 percent that the city would be required to contribute. The city unsuccessfully applied for two EPA cleanup grants, each for $200,000, for the 2018 grant cycle.

A series of owners had made plans to save the building, but after preliminary investigations showed signs of asbestos and other environmental hazards, the building was abandoned. In 2009, the city involuntarily gained possession of the site through tax delinquency.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.saukvalley.com/2019/01/12/public-hearing-for-brownfields-grant-tuesday/ah78co3/

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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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