[CPEO-BIF] Former Taunton Stove Factory site, Taunton, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Will this contaminated Taunton site be cleaned up and turned into house lots?


By Ed Baker
Taunton Daily Gazette (MA)
November 23, 2022

TAUNTON — Houses might be built on the land once owned by the Taunton Stove Factory before it relocated to North Dighton in 1965 — but first the land would need to be cleaned up.

The city has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the state’s Brownfields Redevelopment Fund to remove petroleum from the soil on the parcels at 5-7 Nickerson Ave., which the city has owned since 2013.

Mayor Shaunna O’Connell said Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito helped Taunton get the grant.

“We deeply appreciate the Baker-Polito Administration’s focus on remediation of contaminated properties, which assists communities with housing and economic development,” she said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/environment/2022/11/23/taunton-brownfield-redevelopment-fund-grant-clean-up-stove-factory-nickerson-ave-contaminated/69646778007/

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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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