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Marseilles taps $1.5 million NCICG Brownfields assessment grant for Nabisco, Washington School reviews
Summary
Fairgram and NCICG outlined how a $1.5 million coalition EPA assessment grant will fund Phase I/II environmental reviews and reuse planning for Marseilles and three other target communities; Nabisco and Washington School are priority sites and asbestos surveys were approved this week.
Marseilles city residents and consultants gathered at a public workshop where Melissa Kupchak, a geologist with Fairgram, explained how an EPA Brownfields coalition assessment grant will be used to inventory and evaluate potentially contaminated properties and to plan their reuse. Kupchak said the North Central Illinois Council of Governments (NCICG) received a $1,500,000 coalition assessment grant that covers Phase I (records and history review) and Phase II (field sampling for soil, groundwater, soil vapor and hazardous building materials) site assessments and reuse planning for coalition partner communities.
"A Brownfield site means real property where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant," Kupchak said, explaining the EPA definition and why assessments are necessary. She described Phase I as a desktop…
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