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Alders approve application to seek brownfield grant to remediate 0 Gibbs Street for potential park
Summary
The Board of Alders' City Services and Environmental Policy Committee voted Feb. 6 to authorize the mayor to apply for a CERCLA 128(a) brownfield grant to investigate and begin remediation at 0 Gibbs Street, a triangular parcel next to the Farmington Canal line, with the goal of converting it to public open space.
The New Haven Board of Alders’ City Services and Environmental Policy Committee voted Feb. 6 to authorize the mayor to apply for a CERCLA 128(a) brownfield grant from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to investigate and begin remediation at 0 Gibbs Street, officials said.
Steven Winter, executive director for climate and sustainability, told the committee he and staff “are interested in turning this triangular shaped parcel that abuts the Farmington Canal line” into public open space once contamination is addressed. He said the site has been underused since the 1960s and is largely covered by asphalt, and that earlier Phase 1–3 studies show contaminated soil will need removal.
Winter said the grant request is for $250,000, with “a hundred thousand of which would be used to…
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