Archive | 2008

June 2008

EPA awards five new STRP grants in Alaska

DEC proposes applications by tribal consortia to increase funding
EPA recently awarded $50 million in State and Tribal Response Program (STRP) grants to numerous states, tribes and tribal consortia across the nation. Among the grant winners are five tribes and tribal consortia in Alaska, and there are six continuing grants.
While the 2008 awards have been [...]

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June 2008

What’s ozone sparging?

New technology put to work at former dry cleaners
A redevelopment project in Twin Falls, Idaho, is using ozone sparging technology to clean up groundwater contamination at a former dry-cleaning business.
While TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc. is no newcomer to the brownfields arena, this is the first time the veteran company is using ozone sparging on a [...]

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June 2008

Do you know the major players in Oregon?

Meetings are a chance to build your brownfields network
For about six years, Lon Yandell, the environmental department manager at Kleinfelder, Inc., in Portland has been a faithful regular at the Brownfield Networking Meeting, hosted by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
The meetings are an opportunity for Yandell to meet and exchange ideas with [...]

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May 2008

In redevelopment, bigger isn’t always better

Alaska teaches us to let cultural values play role in reuse
Historically, brownfields programs have focused on idle, industrial properties. Add to that the fact that many high-profile brownfield success stories have spotlighted large construction projects, such as retail shopping centers, and the perception may be that brownfields exist only in heavily populated, industrialized cities.
Not so, [...]

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May 2008

From storing grain to fostering growth

Historic silos take on new mission in Idaho
When you look at a grain silo, what do you see?
Do you see restaurants? Condos? A winery? How about a gallery or performance center, or maybe even a college research laboratory?
John and Miranda Anderson of the Anderson Group in Moscow, Idaho, see this and more. They see a [...]

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