City Seeks $370,000 to Clean Industrial Site
Posted on: Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 21:00 CST
By David Skolnick, Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio
Nov. 1--YOUNGSTOWN -- City officials plan to seek $370,000 in state funding to clean up an industrial site on Albert Street.
The city will have a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday after a city council meeting to discuss the remediation of the former Aeroquip property.
The public hearing is a requirement to apply for money from the state's $400 million Clean Ohio Fund. Half of the fund is to restore brownfield sites such as Aeroquip.
Youngstown has never received any brownfield restoration money from the state fund, created about four years ago.
But the city anticipates obtaining $110,000 from the fund to remediate the former Youngstown Building Materials site on Logan Avenue, said Jeffrey L. Chagnot, city development director.
An answer from the state on that application is expected shortly, he said.
The $110,000 would pay for a study to determine how much it would cost to clean up hazardous materials, such as asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, at the site, Chagnot said.
The actual cleanup of the YBM site would cost about $200,000, Chagnot said.
YBM was a concrete- and building-materials supply center. The 13 acres has been vacant for at least a dozen years, and was bought by the city in 2002.
The YBM and Aeroquip sites are separated by Crab Creek and railroad tracks.
The cleanup study for Aeroquip is more expensive than the study for YBM.
That's because the 11.5-acre property that used to house Aeroquip, a former rubber hose company, has benzene, PCP, asbestos, oil-soaked flooring and other hazardous materials on site, Chagnot said.
The city bought the Aeroquip property in 1980 in exchange for forgiving a $750,000 loan the company received from Youngstown, Chagnot said. The company went out of business in 1979.
It would cost about $2 million to clean up the former Aeroquip property, Chagnot said.
The city wants to clean up the two properties and convert them into light industrial sites, Chagnot added.
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