[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Lowry Community Garden (CO)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Community garden a no-grow
Precautions taken over nearby asbestos

By Adam Goldstein
The Aurora Sentinel (CO)
March 23, 2008


AURORA - The city's parks and open spaces department announced the 
closure of the Lowry Community Garden on Friday, March 21, months after 
asbestos was discovered in a neighboring building during demolition.

Despite the closure, officials stressed that no asbestos was detected in 
the community garden at East 11th Avenue and Dayton Street, which 
measures less than an acre. Though the city does not own the neighboring 
building, it owns the garden, which is managed by Denver Urban Gardens.

...

The asbestos was first detected in Building 898, a former Air Force 
structure, during demolition that was part of the Air Force base 
remediation program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=18715&TM=1855.832

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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