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City outlines cleanup, funding plan for Champion Mill brownfield site
Summary
City staff reported on multi-year environmental assessments and grant efforts for the 50‑acre Champion Mill property, describing contamination hot spots, remaining data gaps, potential cleanup costs and next steps including finishing phase 2 work, designating a project lead and pursuing stacked grants or public–private partnerships.
Lebanon’s Community Development Director Kelly Hart told the City Council on Sept. 10 that the city has completed multiple rounds of environmental assessment and secured grant funding as it pursues cleanup and redevelopment of the 50‑acre Champion Mill site.
Hart said the site’s industrial history — including plywood, paper and lumber operations — left contaminant hot spots; recent testing identified human‑health risk exceedances (including formaldehyde and PAHs) in concentrated areas and ecological risks along portions of the site adjacent to Cheadle Lake. “It is a big site and it is a complicated site,” Hart said.
The report said the city has completed a Phase 1 and a preliminary Phase 2 work with Stantec, and has received an EPA coalition grant (about $1 million shared across Linn and Benton counties) that funded additional Phase 2 rounds and a market analysis. Hart said Round 3 Phase 2 work, under review by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), will focus on soil‑vapor testing for methane, a Tier 1 ecological assessment and sediment testing along the portion…
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