This is the last issue of Brownfields Update for the Pacific Northwest. As an added feature, we asked Brownfields leaders to give their ideas on the future of Brownfields, in their states and perhaps beyond, in light of the economic, financial and other challenges we all face. The following are their responses.
Alaska Outlook
By John [...]
In our last issue, we profiled the Yakutat Tlingit Brownfields Tribal Response Program (TRP) and the work being done to address Brownfields and other environmental contamination issues. This month, we look at the recently created Kuskokwim River Watershed Council TRP, and how they are structuring their Brownfields program.
The Kuskokwim River Watershed region (pop.15,000), consists of [...]
A group of properties in the northern Idaho city of Sandpoint contaminated by years of industrial activities provide a good illustration of how time, parcelization, and public investment can slowly bring a large area of Brownfield properties back into reuse. The North Sandpoint Wood Treatment Facilities is the name given to the three properties, each [...]
A small city in Oregon is embarking on its third Brownfield redevelopment in 15 years. Independence, Oregon, a town of 8,230 people 12 miles southwest of Salem, has had significant success working with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Brownfields stakeholders to restore three sites to productive use. Each of these – a [...]
Our Washington story this month features an old Brownfields site at the Yakima airport that recently was cleaned up. Although it was discovered soon after the initiation of the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) Toxics Cleanup Program, it was idle for years until recent legislative changes made Ecology funding of the cleanup possible. The project [...]
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