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City staff brief committee on two municipal‑settings designation applications for contaminated sites
Summary
City staff presented two municipal‑setting designation (MSD) applications — the Ismaili Center site at 2323 Allen Parkway and a Go Forth Street property — describing past cleanup work, current monitoring and next steps. The presentations were informational; no committee votes were taken and TCEQ remains the final approving authority.
City staff presented two municipal‑setting designation (MSD) applications to the Quality of Life Committee, describing past cleanup work and monitoring at the Ismaili Center site (2323 Allen Parkway) and a separate Go Forth Street property and explaining why the city is being asked to approve MSD restrictions that would prohibit construction of drinking water wells on the parcels.
The committee heard that the Ismaili Center site, owned by Aga Khan Foundation USA (local entity Amara Houston), covers about 11.8 acres along Allen Parkway. Cassandra Walker, administration manager for Brownfields and MSDs in Infrastructure and Development Services for Houston Water, said contractors removed contaminated soil and groundwater from the portion of the site identified by state investigators. "The white area is the excavation site. That is the site that had the contamination and that is the site that they removed the contamination physically removed the contamination from,"…
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