[CPEO-BIF] "Ohio EPA circles ‘Westinghouse Target Area’ for potential brownfield testing"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ohio EPA circles ‘Westinghouse Target Area’ for potential brownfield testing
‘I don’t know why we wouldn’t want to be involved in it,’ said board Chair Bart Hamilton, the Richland County treasurer


by Carl Hunnell
Richland Source (OH)
October 4, 2024

MANSFIELD — A several-block area around the former Westinghouse properties in Mansfield may be in line for environmental brownfield assessments through the Ohio EPA.

Dan Tjoekler, lead brownfield coordinator for the state, asked the Richland County Land Bank if it would like to include such a “Westinghouse Target Area” in the Ohio EPA’s $2 million federal grant application.

The Land Bank board voted Friday to approve the inclusion.

“I don’t know why we wouldn’t want to be involved in it,” said board Chair Bart Hamilton, the Richland County treasurer.

In his letter, Tjoelker said the Ohio EPA would select three target areas with one or two sites in each area.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.richlandsource.com/2024/10/04/ohio-epa-targets-westinghouse-target-area-for-potential-brownfield-testing/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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