Government grant helps clean contaminated site.TVGA TVGA Tennessee Valley Gamers Association TVGA Top-extended VGA Consultants announced their participation in securing $1.9 million in state funding for the clean-up of environmental contamination at the former Roblin Steel site in the city of Dunkirk, N.Y. This award is in addition to $335,000 in state and federal grants previously obtained for the investigation and remedial design of the site. The Elma-based firm is responsible for preparing a successful Environmental Restoration Program grant application for the investigation of the site and has completed a site investigation/remedial alternatives report for the brownfield See greenfield. property. This funding will provide 90% of eligible costs for onsite remediation and up to 100% of eligible costs for off-site remedial activities. Abandoned and vacant for nearly two decades, the former Roblin Steel Site is considered one of the county's highest priority brownfield redevelopment sites. The county acquired the property through tax foreclosure in December of 2001, when a full on-site investigation revealed that the steel-making operations on the site had caused contamination of the soil, sediment and groundwater. Contaminants identified at the site include metals, polychlorinated biphenyl's and semi-volatile organic compounds from the burning of fossil fuels. Utilizing this award, Chautauqua county Chautauqua County is the name of several counties in the United States:
v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. surface and subsurface sub·sur·face adj. Of, relating to, or situated in an area beneath a surface, especially the surface of the earth or of a body of water. Adj. 1. soils; placement of an asphalt pavement that will cover a portion of the site; removal of asbestos from within the existing structure; removal of contaminated sediment from interior building sumps and catch basins; installation of a sub-stab ventilation system ventilation system Public health An air system designed to maintain negative pressure and exhaust air properly, to minimize the spread of TB and other respiratory pathogens in a health care facility for the existing building, combined with treatment of groundwater to remove contamination; and the establishment of an environmental easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. in order to protect the integrity of the remediation. Remediation and redevelopment of the contaminated property will fully utilize the area's existing infrastructure, while avoiding the potential impacts and additional costs associated with construction on undeveloped green space. The remediation of the former Roblin Steel Site represents a major stimulus to the local economy in terms of employment, capital investment and tax revenues. |
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