Latest Brownfield land Stories

By Anonymous Planners at Atisreal have concluded their work on a rnasterplan for South Yorkshire's biggest brownfield development, which is set to create a 4,ooo-home community. In an outline application submitted to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, UK Coal proposes to redevelop a former coke works and mining site at Waverley, near Catcliff, into a residential and employment site. Atisreal's Sheffield office planning department head John Dunshea said: "We have worked to produce a...

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Deborah Fries of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, +1-484-250-5808 New Development Will Bring Community Revitalization, Job Creation toChesterCounty HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 1/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary John Hanger announced today that a former industrial site along the Delaware River in Chester that will be home to a Major League Soccer stadium and mixed- use development has been...

E-Wire -- The National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, has undertaken aggressive groundwater and soil remediation to treat an area of on-site petroleum hydrocarbon contamination. Faced with the challenge of removing the contamination while maintaining the integrity of underground utilities, piping, and infrastructure, NASA and its consultant Tetra Tech chose RegenOx(TM), a proven, non-corrosive, and cost-effective in-situ chemical oxidation...

When it comes to trash, Virginia sounds like a typical overeater. It'd like to reduce, but that doesn't mean it will take the hard steps necessary to cut back. In this case, that would mean what for many Virginia lawmakers is the hardest step of all: raising more money. A draft report by the state Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission suggests the General Assembly might want to consider adding a small state surcharge -- say, 25 cents to $1 per ton -- to trash haulers' landfill...

By Thomas J. Prohaska A new public benefit corporation to issue loans and grants for cleanups of abandoned industrial sites is about to be set up, and a decaying factory in Niagara Falls is expected to be Job One. The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency learned Wednesday that the Niagara County Brownfields Development Corp. is about to start spreading around $900,000 of the $1 million the county received recently in a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Amy E....

By FROM STAFF REPORTS A team of West Virginia University researchers was expected to announce today that they've received a $550,000 award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a project aimed at turning abandoned mine land into fields that produce switchgrass and other biofuels. The announcement was expected during the 2008 West Virginia Brownfields Conference in Huntington. Previously mined land qualifies as brownfields - properties that were previously used for industrial...

By DIANA BOWLEY; OF THE NEWS STAFF DOVER-FOXCROFT - After a nearly 19-year wait, entrepreneur Charles MacArthur of Sangerville could rid himself of property he owns that contains soil contaminated by a former tannery operation that closed in the 1970s. Selectmen on Monday briefly discussed the property, which has more than 10 years of outstanding taxes due. "There's a lot of usable property there," Selectman Elwood Edgerly said Monday of the approximately 36-acre parcel. Edgerly said...

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Torrent Power Limited (BOM:532779) (Ahmedabad, Gujarat) has announced plans to generate 8,600 megawatts (MW) of power by setting up new greenfield and brownfield projects. The completion of the new projects is expected to catapult Torrent Power to the league of the country's top power companies such as National Thermal Power Corporation (Delhi), Tata Power Company Limited (BOM:500400) (Mumbai) and Reliance Power Limited...

By Jared Page Deseret News The signs are weathered and rusting, and their warning is outdated. "Caution," they read. "Waste containment site." Yet no danger lurks beyond the signs and the forbidding barbed wire-topped, chain-link fence to which they're affixed -- aside from the occasional skinned knee or elbow of a skateboarder. Today, the handful of signs on the northern border of Rosewood Park is the only visual evidence of the unlined sludge pit where oil companies disposed of acidic...

By Harris, Linda A $200,000-federal brownfields grant will allow the city of Weirton to get rid of an old grade school that has fallen into disrepair since its doors closed more than a decade ago. The 80-year-old Cove School, abandoned in 1991, was riddled with contaminants, including asbestos, and over the years had been targeted by vandals, City Manager Gary DuFour said. Though various ideas had been suggested for salvaging the property - at one point, for instance, city officials had...