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Concord awarded $678,000 EPA Brownfields grant to clean up former stables site
Summary
The City of Concord announced a $678,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields grant to clean up contamination at the former Concord Stables building, a parcel now in the Concord High School parking area; city staff credited recent local appropriations and staff work that strengthened the federal application.
Mayor Champlin announced that the City of Concord has been awarded a $678,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields grant to clean up the site of the former Concord Stables, a property located in what is now the Concord High School parking lot.
The grant will fund removal of contamination under the building and site work intended to make the property “acceptable for and safe for human use again,” Mayor Champlin said during the finance committee meeting. He credited city staff and a recent council appropriation for helping demonstrate local commitment to the project and improving the application’s competitiveness. “Kudos to city manager, to, his, staff, Beth Festemacher and others who, I think, Beth Festemacher put together the application and a really successful application,” the mayor said.
City representatives said the application process began about a year ago and included revisions in coordination with EPA. At the meeting the city manager (identified in the public record as the city manager) said, “we applied a year ago, work with EPA to, tighten up the application... they were great to work with and we were successful this year and we look forward to start to work on that project.” The manager also noted the council’s recent appropriation helped show the federal reviewers the city’s commitment.
No detailed cleanup schedule, contractor selection plan or estimated timeline for the start of work was provided at the meeting. City staff said earlier local appropriations were intended to “button up” aspects of the project and positioned the city to compete for federal funds. Funding sources beyond the EPA grant for the project’s full cost were not specified during the committee discussion.
City staff indicated they will return with more information about next steps, including how the grant will be implemented and any follow-up budget requests. The committee did not take any formal votes on project-specific spending during the meeting.
The announcement follows a broader budget review session in which the city manager briefed the finance committee on multiple departmental budgets; the Brownfields award was presented publicly before that review began.
