[CPEO-BIF] "Stonington [Connecticut] seeks brownfield grants to address needs at Boathouse Park, Stillman mill"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stonington seeks brownfield grants to address needs at Boathouse Park, Stillman mill

By Jason Vallee 
Westerly Sun 
April 12, 2021

STONINGTON — The town is aggressively pursuing two state brownfield grants that would aid in environment remediation needs at Mystic River Boathouse Park and testing at the former site of the Connecticut Casting mill on Stillman Avenue.

Town staff filed separate applications for each project with the state last week, seeking funding through the Connecticut Office of Brownfield Remediation and Development and the Brownfield Municipal Grant Program. The applications seek a $754,000 remediation grant for cleanup and capping of pollution at the park, as well as a $139,000 assessment grant to identify the type and level of ground contamination at the Stillman Avenue site.

First Selectman Danielle Chesebrough said that because the grant requests do not both seek the same type of work, the two are not considered to be competing applications which increases the town’s chances of acquiring one or both.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/stonington/stonington-seeks-brownfield-grants-to-address-needs-at-boathouse-park-stillman-mill/article_9b539fca-9885-11eb-ae56-8f425b7c0ac1.html

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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