[CPEO-BIF] "Vermont Farmers Food Center needs to fix soil contamination, " Rutland, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State: Vermont Farmers Food Center needs to fix soil contamination

By Katy Savage
Mountain Times (VT)
JANUARY 12, 2022 

An attempt to expand the Vermont Farmers Market Food Center on West Street in Rutland has uncovered a contamination problem in the air and soil.

The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources sent current and former owners of the property a letter on Dec. 30 explaining they need to provide a corrective action plan by Jan. 17 under state statute.

Kimberly Caldwell, an environmental analyst at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, said the owners have been told to stop using the building in the meantime.

“The recommendation of the health department is that the tenants find alternate locations,” Caldwell said. “It’s up to them if they do that, we can’t force them out of the building.”


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For the entire article, see
https://mountaintimes.info/state-vermont-farmers-food-center-needs-to-fix-soil-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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