[CPEO-BIF] Menomonee Valley Industrial Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
By Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 
July 27, 2020

WisconsinDNR Issues Final Site Closure for State’s Largest Brownfield Cleanup Project
 

MADISON, Wis. – After nearly 30 years of planning, investigating and cleaning up, the city of Milwaukee has completed cleanup of a 110-acre former brownfield site that they once considered “Wisconsin’s biggest eyesore.”

DNR’s Remediation and Redevelopment (RR) Program, which oversees environmental cleanups across the state, issued a case closure letter for the site to Milwaukee officials on May 1, 2020. For the city, this means that the cleanup work on the property is essentially over; they have investigated the degree and extent of the contamination and restored the site to the extent practicable.

The site is situated within the Menomonee Valley Industrial Center – one of the state’s largest brownfield successes. The Menomonee Valley Industrial Center has become home to thriving businesses, an award-winning stormwater treatment system and part of the Hank Aaron State Trail.

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For the entire release, see
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/dnr-issues-final-site-closure-for-states-largest-brownfield-cleanup-project/

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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
http://www.cpeo.org





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