[CPEO-BIF] "Discovery of pollution adds $2 million to cost of Brookhaven’s [GEORGIA] new city hall"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Discovery of pollution adds $2 million to cost of Brookhaven’s new city hall

By Anila Yoganathan 
Decateurish (GA)
January 21, 2024

Brookhaven, GA — Before the city of Brookhaven can build its new city hall, the city will need to spend up to $2.2 million to remediate the property due to environmental contaminants found at the site. 

The property is located at the corner of Peachtree Road and North Druid Hills. The projected cost of the project is $78 million, according to the city. 

Brookhaven did not conduct any environmental reviews of the property before leasing it from MARTA. The city didn’t know about the property’s environmental concerns until field engineers noticed a smell emanating from the dirt in February 2023 and decided they needed to analyze the soil.

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For the entire article, see
https://decaturish.com/2024/01/discovery-of-pollution-adds-2-million-to-cost-of-brookhavens-new-city-hall/

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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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