[CPEO-BIF] Former Stockbridge Motors site, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A former brownfield, Stockbridge Motors site now a clean slate for town

By Clarence Fanto
Berkshire Eagle (MA)
January 15, 2020

STOCKBRIDGE - A contaminated former auto repair facility is ready for new life following a major state and federal environmental cleanup at no cost to the town.

The recently concluded three-week project removed about 1,600 tons of gasoline-contaminated soil from the former Stockbridge Motors service station at 4 East St. (Route 7) just north of the business district.

The brownfields cleanup, a joint project of the state Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, also yielded 12,000 gallons of gasoline-contaminated groundwater for disposal.

The entire project cost about $400,000, funded by the state and federal environmental agencies and a $50,000 site-assessment grant secured by Melissa Provencher, environmental and energy program manager at the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/a-former-brownfield-stockbridge-motors-site-now-a-clean-slate-for-town,594642

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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
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