2019 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 19:52:33 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Lincoln Lace and Braid mill site becomes Woonasquatucket Adventure Park, Providence, Rhode Island
 
Adventure Awaits in New Urban Park Built Atop Old Brownfield

By GRACE KELLY
Eco’RI News (RI)
November 22, 2019

PROVIDENCE - The Woonasquatucket River Greenway is an oasis wrapped around Route 6 and urban sprawl. And it recently officially opened its latest addition: the Woonasquatucket Adventure Park.

Blue jays and cardinals weave through browning tall grasses and perch on sumac trees, as Donny Green, bicycle program director for the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council (WRWC), and I trudge over rain-soaked ground to a large, gray structure. A bike path cuts a line next to us.

Once home to the Lincoln Lace and Braid mill, which burned down in 1994, the space was riddled with rubble and polluted soil. It was originally slated to be a passive vegetated area after remediation.

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Fort the entire article, see
https://www.ecori.org/public-safety/2019/11/22/adventure-awaits-in-new-urban-park

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